Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final days before the accord was not quite so easy. Three separate road-blocks sprawled across Big Foot Trail, two of them manned by Indians who opposed each other. The Oglala Tribal Council maintained the outermost checkpoint, while the militant American Indian Movement handled the innermost roadblock. AIM demanded the ouster of Richard Wilson, the Oglala Tribal president. It was fitting that the U.S. government roadblock stood between the two Indian checkpoints, serving both symbolically and realistically as a buffer zone...
Over 650 miles from the wind-swept hills that surround Big Foot Trail is a crowded city street known as Franklin Ave. Here on this Minneapolis avenue, the American Indian Movement began. From its modest initiation as an organization founded to protect Minneapolis's young Indians from police harrassment, AIM has grown to a movement with chapters in 37 states...
...AIM has come a long way from Franklin Ave. Russell C. Means and Dennis J. Banks, AIM's major spokesmen at Wounded Knee, were not members when AIM organized in 1968, and the movement itself did not become a national one until...
...beginning, AIM's thrust was intentionally narrow. Rita Rogers, a director of the Minneapolis chapter and an AIM member from its inception, said last week that the necessity for self-protection gave birth to AIM...
...accompanies Means and Leonard Crow Dog, a spiritual leader from the nearby Rosebud reservation, to Washington for the meetings. The selection of Bad Cob for the trip seems to indicate a desire on the part of AIM leaders to include symbolic representatives of the oldest living Oglalas...