American Indian Movement papers, 1965-1995 (bulk 1973-1979).

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American Indian Movement papers, 1965-1995 (bulk 1973-1979).

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The collection spans the timeframe 1965-1995, the bulk of the material focuses on 1973-1979, the time, circumstances, and repercussions of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D. The collection is divided into 4 overlapping series. The AIM/BIA series contains general background materials on the American Indian Movement and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Wounded Knee series materials include court cases, legal documents, statements, correspondence, press materials, etc. Documentation in this series includes legal matters pertaining to prominent AIM members Russell Means, Robert Robideau, Darrel Butler, Dennis Banks, and Leonard Peltier as well as documentation detailing the operations of FBI informant, Douglas Durham. Investigations of the death of Anna Mae Aquash is also included in this series. Much of the material was accumulated or produced by the Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee. The Native American Issues series provides reports, press releases, news clippings, articles, legal documents, and ephemera which provide insight into a variety of issues. The publications series contains scattered issues of Native American related publications. The collection was generally kept in original order using original folder names where possible.

4 boxes (3.25 cu. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7671536

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Means, Russell, 1939-2012

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Russell Charles Means (born Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, November 10, 1939-died Rapid City, South Dakota, October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, musician, and writer. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968 and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage....

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was formed in 1824. An agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior, it is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. From the guide to the Navajo Land, motion picture, undated, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A Statistics Section was organ...

Robideau, Robert L.

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Robert Robideau joined the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1973. Indian inmates, Clyde Bellecourt, Dennis Banks, and Edward Benton-Banai founded AIM in 1968 in the Stillwater State Penitentiary. The organizers endeavored to teach the many Indian inmates about their spiritual history and how to stay out of jail once paroled. The movement aimed to revitalize a sense of pride in traditional Indian values and to correct the conditions under which Indians lived: 70-80% unemployment; inadequate hous...

Gordon, Eda

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As a member of the National Lawyers Guild, Eda Gordon joined the volunteer Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee in 1973. Gordon was integrally involved in the Committee on Native American Struggles (CONAS) of the National Lawyers Guild; the Native American Solidarity Committee (NASC), and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC), among others. With WKLD/OC attorney Roger Finzel, she was successful in lobbying for the first meeting in modern times between Lakota traditional chiefs and...

Finzel, Roger A.

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As members of the National Lawyers Guild, Roger Finzel and Eda Gordon volunteered to join the Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee, formed after the 1973 liberation of the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Finzel served as a staff attorney for the Defense Committee. Gordon, as the committee's press liaison and later as an investigator of Wounded Knee cases. Finzel and Gordon moved to Washington, D.C., and later to Albuquerque, N.M. they continued s...

American Indian Movement

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The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group in the United States, founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota....

Durham, Douglas.

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Peltier, Leonard.

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...

Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee

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On February 27, 1973, approximately 300 Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, led by members of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (OSCRO) and the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupied the village of Wounded Knee. During the 71-day siege, the occupants established the Independent Oglala Nation and demanded the U.S. Government's recognition of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux Nation, the removal of the Oglala Sioux tribal council, and new electi...

Butler, Darrell L., 1949-

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