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WXIX
April 2, 2018
... or concerns about the redskins mascot. In 1999, the Forest Hills school board voted unanimously to keep the mascot after supporters of the American Indian movement asked it be changed. The meeting is being held Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Nagel Middle School. Copyright 2018 WXIX. All rights reserved.
Valley News Live
April 1, 2018
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court has affirmed a Canadian man's conviction in the 1975 murder of a fellow American Indian Movement activist in South Dakota. John Graham contended the trial court lacked jurisdiction because he is a Canadian citizen and his extradition violated an extraditionÃâà...
San Francisco Examiner
April 1, 2018
The event forever changed Indian activism with its display of unity among Native nations; it also encouraged groups like the American Indian Movement (AIM) to continue occupying strategies nationwide and helped to heighten media awareness of Indian rights. “I was pregnant at the time and didn't go toÃâà...
KTVQ Billings News
March 30, 2018
The walk is the brainchild of the late Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement who organized the first walks in 1978. His goal was to raise awareness of health problems, environmental concerns and suicide in Indian country. The walk is scheduled to end July 14 at the Lincoln MemorialÃâà...
Vox
March 30, 2018
“The red face is problematic,” adds Sundance, a Native American activist and director of the Cleveland American Indian Movement. “The fact that it is an Indian head is problematic because an Indian head is a symbol of genocide, and Wahoo as a caricature then mocks mass murder. The red feather in hisÃâà...
New Republic
March 29, 2018
The Polish antifa was a foot soldier, a militant, a martyr for a noble cause. And there were plenty of historical precedents in the States. The Black Panther Party was armed to the teeth, of course, as was the American Indian Movement. The 1960s was full of left-wing groups arming themselves in self-defense.
The Nation.
March 28, 2018
The bipartisan development of Cointelpro, the FBI program that illegally tracked and neutralized dissidents of the security state (like Martin Luther King Jr or members of the American Indian Movement), was a case in point. So was the ongoing extralegal meddling in places like Chile (under Nixon) andÃâà...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
March 28, 2018
And we should remember that all the protest movements we now admire — the Boston Tea Party, the Suffragettes, the labor rights movement, the American Indian Movement, the Civil Rights Movement — were very unpopular in their time. Americans seem to only like rabble-rousers onceÃâà...
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
March 27, 2018
Pete Schmidt became “Dennis Banks” because of his bank shot off of the backboard, at a time when the American Indian Movement was very active. “Hack would do impressions... he could do anybody!” Schmidt laughingly said of John “Hack” Even. “He could do a Bobby Munk shovel-shot, a DaveÃâà...
Dothan Eagle
March 21, 2018
Negotiators for militant Indians and the federal government scheduled talks in a teepee Sunday to discuss a three-point proposal to end the siege of Wounded Knee. U.S. Asst. Atty. Gen. Harlington Wood and two other federal officers agreed to meet with American Indian Movement leaders in a teepee setÃâà...
Tribal Tribune
March 14, 2018
Nespelem – Before he passed away, American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks declared a mission for his final walk across the country – a three-year journey to bring attention to drug-related deaths and domestic violence in Indian Country. The journey dubbed the Longest Walk 5, and which isÃâà...
Bemidji Pioneer
March 11, 2018
BEMIDJI -- Local indigenous activists hope to take on racism and discrimination through a new Bemidji chapter of the American Indian Movement. ... activist with Minnesota roots -- started work on the chapter following the late-October death of the American Indian Movement's founder Dennis Banks.
Pacific Standard
March 9, 2018
Mni Wiconi participants gather under an American Indian Movement flag. (Photo: Larry Towell/Magnum Photos). A young family at Sacred Stone Village. (Photo: Larry Towell/Magnum Photos). For Native people, the camps marked a cultural intersection between prayer and protest. The term Water ProtectorÃâà...
Yakima Herald-Republic
March 6, 2018
Carrying a historic American Indian Movement eagle feather staff, Robert Wallace Jr. — chief of the Longest Walk 5.3 — along with fellow walk chief Harry Kindness and other participants were welcomed Tuesday morning by Debra Whitefoot, who organized the Yakama Nation events, and Gregg SutterlictÃâà...
Hyperallergic
March 2, 2018
At the height of his comeback, Brando opted to decline his second Oscar and stand in solidarity with the American Indian Movement activists at Wounded Knee. In a statement released the day following the ceremony, Brando reiterated, “The motion picture community has been as responsible as any forÃâà...
Newscenter1.tv
February 28, 2018
If you were around in South Dakota in 1973, there's no doubt you remember this event. Tuesday marked 45 years since members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) began a three-month occupation of Wounded Knee - where some 300 Sioux were massacred in 1890 by the 7th U.S. Cavalry.
People's World
February 23, 2018
Filmed over a five-year period, On a Knife Edge provides a privileged view into the interior world of George Dull Knife as he becomes politically active with the American Indian Movement, confronts the challenges of growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and wrestles with accepting the leadership ofÃâà...
The Michigan Daily
February 22, 2018
While the policies often inflicted pain on the Native American community, Bruegl stated they lead to the American Indian Movement, founded in 1968. The organization focuses on representation and action among the Native American community. She went on to discuss some defining instances of activismÃâà...
MinnPost
February 7, 2018
The uproar, led by the American Indian Movement (AIM), centered in the Twin Cities, also was manifested in displeasure with the Washington Redskins professional football team, a name that many in the movement found equally offensive. Whenever the Washington team played here, it, too, was greetedÃâà...
High Country News
February 2, 2018
When it comes to Snyder, many Natives are echoing Philip Yenyo, executive director of the American Indian Movement of Ohio. “I don't understand why they're drawing this out,” he told the Associated Press, discussing Cleveland's decision to wait a year to remove Chief Wahoo. “It doesn't make any senseÃâà...
Cincinnati.com
December 31, 1999
Last month, some Anderson High School community members told the school board it's time to change the Redskin team name. Now a group that wants to keep the Redskin tradition is also making its voice heard. A petition to preserve the Anderson High School team name has been started on change.orgÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
A photo exhibit highlighting recent American Indian activism has opened at the American Indian Movement Interpretive Center, 1113 E. Franklin Av. in Minneapolis. Included are photographs of the Dakota Access pipeline protests at North Dakota's Standing Rock Indian Reservation, the Justice for JasonÃâà...
BLABBERMOUTH.NET
December 31, 1999
Industrial metal pioneers MINISTRY have releases a surreal and provocative new music video for the track "Twilight Zone" from the band's upcoming album, "AmeriKKKant", due out March 9 (Nuclear Blast). Building upon the themes of the song, the "Twilight Zone" video takes the viewer on a macabreÃâà...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
December 31, 1999
In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until the following May.) In 1991, Operation Desert Storm came to a conclusion as President George H.W.Ãâà...
cleveland.com
December 31, 1999
In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until the following May.) In 1986, the U.S. Senate approved telecasts of its debates on a trial basis. In 1991Ãâà...
