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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Chapters: American Indian Higher Education Consortium, American Indian Movement, Pan-Indianism, American Indian Library Association, Association on American Indian Affairs, Original Keetoowah Society, National Indian Youth Council, Inter-Tribal Environmental Council, Keetoowah Nighthawk Society, Indian Health Service, United Indians of All Tribes, National Congress of American Indians, Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, Cherokee heritage groups, Tree of Peace Society, Tribal Council, Tribal colleges and universities, Algonquian Confederacy of the Quinnipiac Tribal Council, Cherokee Preservation Foundation, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, Cheyenne military societies, Native American Rights Fund, American Indian College Fund, Tribal College Librarians Institute, Alaska Federation of Natives, National Indian Education Association, American Indian Defense Association, Society of American Indians, Koitsenko, Anishinaabe tribal political organizations, Phi Sigma Nu, Literacy is Empowering Project, Indian Rights Association, American Indian Dance Theatre, Guilford Native American Association, UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., Traditional Circle of Indian Elders & Youth, Sequoyah Research Center, Cradleboard Teaching Project, American Indian Scouting Association, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission, Navajo AIDS Network, Tohono O'Odham Ki:Ki Association, Little Priest Tribal College, Metrolina Native American Association, North American Indian Center of Boston, Women's National Indian Association, American Indians into Psychology, Cherokee Artists Association, Cherokee Nation Warriors Society, White Earth Land Recovery Project, Sitting Bull College, Northern California Indian Development Council, Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project, First Nations Composer Initiative, Kanatsiohareke, Native Energy, All Indian Rodeo Cowboys Association, First Americans in the Arts, International Native American Flute Association, American Indian Philosophy Association. Excerpt: The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American activist organization in the United States, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by urban Native Americans. The national AIM agenda focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty. AIM was founded in 1968 by Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, Herb Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Harold Goodsky, Eddie Benton-Banai, and a number of others in Minneapolis' Native American community. Russell Means, born Oglala Lakota, was an early leader in 1970s protests. The organization was formed to address various issues concerning the Native American urban community in Minneapolis, including poverty, housing, treaty issues, and police harassment. From its beginnings in Minnesota, AIM soon attracted members from across the United States (and Canada). It participated in the Rainbow Coalition organized by the civil rights activist Fred Hampton. Charles Deegan Sr. was involved with the AIM Patrol. In October 1972 AIM gathered members from across the country to march to Washington, DC on what they called the "Trail of Broken Treaties." AIM gained international press when it seized the Bureau of Indian Affairs national headquarters and presented a 20-point list of demands of the federal government. In 1973 it led a 71-day armed standoff with federal forces at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In the decades since AIM's founding, the group has...

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