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Dennis Brand
Dennis Banks (Ojibwe, April 12, 1937 – October 29, 2017) was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota. -
American Indian movement(AIM)
*Founded by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and Eddie Benton-Banai to control discrimination, housing, unemployment, and historical trauma against Native Americans by the government.
*Founded July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
*AIM was formed to address American Indian sovereignty while simultaneously addressing racist policies and laws like Indian Termination Policies. -
Indian Civil Rights Act
- Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA) passed 1968. *Native Americans were guaranteed many civil rights they had been fighting for:
*Protection from unreasonable search and seizure
*Right to a speedy and fair trial.
*Protection against self incrimination
*Protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
*Right to a jury trial for offenses punishable by imprisonment
*Equal protection under the law and due process
*general sovereignty. -
Occupation of Alcatraz
*The Occupation of Alcatraz was an occupation of Alcatraz Island by 90 American Indians who called themselves Indians of All Tribes.
*According to the IOAT under the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) all abandoned or out-of-use federal land was returned to the indigenous natives.
*The Alcatraz Occupation lasted for nineteen months, from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971
*The United States forcibly ended the occupation. -
Milwaukee protest
*In 1971, a group of Native Americans from the American Indian Movement in Milwaukee staged a protest to take back an abandoned Coast Guard station at the Lincoln Memorial Drive. They succeeded and the station became the first Indian Community School up until 1980. -
Trail of Broken Treaties
*Cross-country protest organized by Native Americans
* October of 1972.
* the caravan from the west coast to Washington with a caravan in November of 1972.
*supposed to bring attention to Native American concerns such as treaty rights and living standards.
*The American Indian Movement designed the Twenty-Point Position paper, designed to bring back the authority of the Indian Nations.
*The caravan sent a powerful statement concerning the rights of Native Americans. -
Bureau of Indian Affairs occupation.
*The American Indian Movement with 500 more American Indians took over the BIA building in Washington, D.C.
*The occupation was spurred by their need to negotiate about better housing and other issues.
*The protesters caused damages costing about $700,000
*Damages included were theft of many records including treaties, deeds, and water rights records -
wounded knee incident
*200 AIM members took over the small town of Wounded Knee
*For 71 days, AIM battled U.S. officials
*AIM protested the removal of a tribal leader, and for Native Americans’ basic needs.
*AIM chose this site because it was significant to the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890
*Two U.S. officials were seriously wounded, a civil rights activist disappeared, and two Native Americans died -
Federation of Survivor Schools
Federation of Survivor Schools:
This was created to provide encouragement to 16 survival schools
(Department of) Housing and Urban Development chose AIM to sponsor the first housing project run by Indians (Little Earth of United Tribes) -
The Longest Walk:
Planned and organized by the American Indian Movement
Roughly 2,000 supporters joined this event
The supporters concluded a 5-month march from San Francisco to the Washington Monument at Washington D.C
The objective of the march was to protest against 11 bills connected to the Native Americans
Only about 24 people were able to survive the entire walk.
