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Article: AIM (American Indian Movement) - the history.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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Windspeaker Contributor
STILLWATER STATE PRISON, Minnesota (Beginning 1962)
It's fitting that the birth of the American Indian Movement took place inside prison walls. It was born at a time when Indians in the United States and Canadian had no voice in the affairs of the two nations, when their land holdings had shrunk, leaving them hardly a place to bury their dead, when they were held in the lowest esteem by people who went to church weekly and sang about the brotherhood of man and then, on weekdays, insisted their children not play with their dark-skinned neighbors, when Indian women were sterilized without their consent, Indian men were routinely ...