Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reinforce that broadly-based document, AIM conducts local forays to dramatize isolated injustices. The Wounded Knee area is ideal for this type of action. The site is located in the Black Hills, where the U.S. allegedly violated the Laramie treaty, and it was here that the last battle between the Indians and the U.S. cavalry took place...
...August 1970, AIM and other groups began a prayer vigil at Mt. Rushmore in the Black Hills to protest the Federal government's purchase of 150,000 acres during World War II for a gunnery range. The militant groups claimed that the U.S. promised to return the acreage after...
...Over 1000 Indians gathered at Gordon, Neb., in March 1972 to protest the death of Raymond Yellow Thunder. Yellow Thunder, a resident of the Pine Ridge reservation, was found dead in Gordon on February 20. The autopsy showed Yellow Thunder died of a cerebral hemorrhage, but AIM requested, and obtained, a Federal grand jury to investigate the death. Reliable reports said a few white youths had harrassed Yellow Thunder, forced him to dance in front of others, and threw him out in the cold. This incident occurred a week before he was found dead...
...Four days after AIM arrived in Gordon, 300 Indians left Gordon and headed for Wounded Knee, 40 miles north. The demonstrators stormed the museum at the historic site, causing $50,000 damage. The militants claimed that James Czywczynski, owner of the museum, touched off the incident when he allegedly roughed up an 11-year-old Sioux boy. Czywczynski, like most Pine Ridge residents who own businesses, is white...
...AIM's Washington battle came to a climax just five months ago, when 500 Indians took over the BIA building on 19th St. and Constitution Ave., three blocks from the White House. The militant group held the BIA for six days, leaving after President Nixon established a Federal study group to examine the effectiveness...