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MSR News Online
January 29, 2018
While many will gather around their television sets for Super Bowl 52 on Feb. 4, more than a dozen community organizations in Minneapolis will join together to protest against the game and the NFL at the Anti-Racist, Anti-Corporate Rally. Clyde Bellecourt, founder and national director of the AmericanÃâà...
People's World
November 2, 2017
He co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) with Clyde Bellecourt, George Mitchell, and Vernon Bellecourt in 1968 as a result of police abuse against American Indians in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area. Banks asked Russell Means, who was the director of the Cleveland Indian Center when AIMÃâà...
Indian Country Today Media Network
October 30, 2017
Dennis Banks (Leech Lake Reservation, Minnesota Ojibwa / Anishinabe) is well-known for his role in co-founding the American Indian Movement (AIM) alongside George Mitchell and Clyde Bellecourt. Banks is also infamous for his interactions with fellow AIM activist Russell Means at the Wounded KneeÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
August 10, 2017
A Twin Cities man painted as an informant in American Indian Movement co-founder Clyde Bellecourt's autobiography is suing for libel. clyde-bellecourt-book Clyde Bellecourt's autobiography. (Stock Photo). Robert Kelly said Bellecourt's “The Thunder Before the Storm” harmed his reputation and put him inÃâà...
Bemidji Pioneer
March 5, 2017
BSU's American Indian Resource Center is scheduled to host a presentation and book signing Monday with Clyde Bellecourt, one of the founders of the American Indian Movement. The presentation is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, March 6, at the resource center's Gathering Room. Bellecourt's talk isÃâà...
Twin Cities Daily Planet
December 5, 2016
Clyde Bellecourt is a Native American rights activist and Minneapolis resident who co-founded the American Indian Movement. His new autobiography, titled “The Thunder Before the Storm,” tells the history of his life and events which give the foundation for this justice work, from Survival Schools toÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 4, 2016
Review: 'The Thunder Before the Storm,' by Clyde Bellecourt, as told to Jon Lurie. NONFICTION: From one of the last founders of the American Indian Movement, a proud claim of noble purpose and lasting change. By CHUCK HAGA Special to the Star Tribune. November 4, 2016 — 2:25pm. Clyde Bellecourt. Courtesy ofÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
November 2, 2016
Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, has lived 80 hard years and earned his rest after a lifetime of working on behalf of American Indians. Yet this summer he stayed at the North Dakota camp where hundreds of American Indians, along with white sympathizers, are showingÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 19, 2016
Over the past 48 years, one of the principal figures in the national movement to end discrimination and right centuries of injustices against American Indians has been an Ojibwe man from Minneapolis, Clyde Bellecourt. He is one of the founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which has had a bigÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News
May 19, 2015
Native American activist Clyde Bellecourt, who helped found the American Indian Movement, was photographed Friday, May 1, 2015 at Cedar Field in Minneapolis. Jennifer ... 4min 3sec. White Earth band member Clyde Bellecourt has spent decades fighting for the rights of American Indian people.
