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About American Indian Movement
Founding in Minneapolis & the AIM Patrol (1968)
Trail of Broken Treaties & the BIA Occupation (1972)
The Custer Courthouse Confrontation (1973)
The Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)
The Wounded Knee Leadership Trials (1974)
The "Reign of Terror" on Pine Ridge (1973–1976)
The Oglala Firefight & the RESMURS Prosecutions (1975)
The Cedar Rapids Acquittal of Butler & Robideau (1976)
The Leonard Peltier Case (1977– )
Later Prosecutions & AIM's Prisoner Legacy
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT
The American Indian Movement was founded in Minneapolis in 1968 to confront police brutality and defend treaty rights, and grew into the militant center of the Red Power era — from the Trail of Broken Treaties to the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee. The federal response was one of the most intensive campaigns of surveillance, infiltration, and prosecution ever directed at a domestic movement: hundreds of indictments after Wounded Knee, a documented "reign of terror" on Pine Ridge, and the case of Leonard Peltier, for decades the most internationally recognized political prisoner in the United States. The events below trace AIM's rise and the prosecutions that followed.
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