The White Race Of American Indian Movement

The AIM was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt, mainly to stop the police brutality and other violence going on within the Indian communities. In the 1950’s the United States government had decided to establish a policy that included taking all the land they had given to Native Americans back. This would

In the time period of 1800-1850 white Americans expanded across the vast lands on the western side of the continent and regularly encountered conflict with various Indian nations. In these documents, interactions for the various Indian nations were subjected to different cultivation between each tribe per say that there were responses that filled different needs and demands. Some tribes provided benefits such as agriculture and household manufacture and produced the idea that settlements to be blended and conform into one people. Other interactions created conflict because some of our land purchases were not 100% in compliance with the constitution. Yet some Indian nations

and their effects are still occurring today and need to be made known to spare the

Minority groups are defined as alien residents of nations who no longer have rights to their land. Ordinarily due to colonization. Minority status is the result of adverse discrimination some of the defining elements of these groups are commonly long-term occupation of land, common ancestry, traditional culture, language or formal membership. In the United States, Native Americans, also known as American Indians or just simply Indians are considered to be people whose pre-Columbian ancestors were indigenous to the lands within the nation’s modern boundaries. These people were composed of numerous distinct tribes, bands and ethnic groups. Custer Died for Your Sins is a 1969, non-fiction book by the lawyer, professor and writer Vine Deloria. This was noted primarily for its relevance to activist organizations like the American Indian Movement. The book consists of eleven essays and is critical of aid organizations, for their efforts to so called “help” Native Americans. The author shows readers that instead of helping they were stopping the progress. Deloria 's book discussed and offered many types of solutions in helping Native Americans.

The American Indian Movement, AIM, was founded in 1968 by Russell Means, Dennis Banks, and other Native American leaders. AIM was founded as a militant political and civil rights organization for the Native Americans. AIM members occupied Alcatraz Island off San Francisco from November 1969 to June 1971, because they said the treaty granted them permission to unused federal land. AIM occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. in November 1972 to protest the controlling reservation development.

Nearly every Native American Indian tribe has experienced some kind of neglect or discrimination. The white man has forcefully moved tribes from their homes, broken

When interviewed about the killing of the two agents, Dick Wilson stated: “The Oglalas don’t like what happened and if the FBI don’t get them the Oglalas will. We have our own way of punishing people that way.” The interviewer then asked: “Shooting on the reservation?” to which Dick Wilson replied: “You said it. We’ll take care them.” Yet for all the forces aligned against them, the fugitives still evaded those hunting them. The FBI wanted three men in particular: Bob Robideau, Darrell Butler, and Leonard Peltier. They were the only ones ever brought to trial for what happened on June 26. Bob Robideau and Darrell Butler were arrested in September. Leonard Peltier had made his way to Canada, and while the U.S. government sought extradition, Robideau and Butler’s trial went ahead. The jury acquitted them on grounds of self-defense, finding that their involvement in the shoot-out was justified given the weight of fear that existed on Pine

After the Trail of Tears, reuniting the split factions of the Eastern Cherokee became one of the most important aims of the tribe. John Ross and Sequyoah, two principal chiefs of the split Eastern tribe, came together and reunited. They then worked together to try and rebuild their society in Oklahoma Territory. When the Civil War broke out, many Cherokee sided with the Confederacy because they identified as southerners and some owned slaves. There was a small pro-Union faction, which furthur split the community, so most of the post-Trail or Tears goals could be summed up as trying to rebuild tribal

“One of the first important acts of an oppressor is to define the oppressed victims he intends to jail or eradicate so that they will be looked upon as creatures warranting suppression and in some cases separation and annihilation” (Bosmajian 347). The writer, Haig A. Bosmajian, begins his essay with these words in “Defining the ‘American Indian’: A Case Study in the Language of Suppression.” In his essay, which targets mainstream Americans, he attempts to show his readers how language has been used in American history to “justify” the oppression of the American Indians. The use of language

The word “Indian” actually originated with Christopher Columbus, on accident! Columbus thought that he had landed in the East Indies, and called the people Indians and the term stuck. There are many different views on the American Indians. Often they are portrayed as fierce warriors always fighting. These stereotypes of big men with war paint and tomahawks are very broad, and some tribes were actually quite docile.

I agree that the treatment of American Indians during the mid-1800s could be considered as ethnic cleansing. The value of land increased dramatically when cotton became the major product in the south. Many whites wanted to push west and acquired the Native American’s fertile soil. Still, many Native Americans had remained in the South. They adopted white Americans culture, attended to school, owned private property and formed constitutional, republican governments. Most southern whites, however, denounced the Indian civilization as a shame and believed the Indians could never be civilized. Although federal policy had been to respect the rights of American Indian to inhabit the land, President Andrew Jackson abandoned this policy and adopted

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The impact and achievements of the American Indian Association/Movement were not neraly as significant as the Nation Farm Workers Association because of the fact that the organization disbanded so many years later. Despite the straightforwardness of its stated objectives, AIM's reputation had been seriously harmed by well-publicized and controversial incidents of law-breaking, vandalism, and violence, resulting in the organization's peak and decline within a few years. They also assisted in the formation of the National Indian Education Association, which fought for equal education for Native Americans. However, the National Farm Workers Association impact and achievements were greater than the AIM was. When the NFWA joined forces with the

Because of the squabble between a white planter and native people (that lead to the murder of the planter's herdsmen and the retaliation by frontier vigilantes, killing about 24 Indians), scattered attacks resulted in the killing of Nathaniel Banach's farm manager. Bacon went to the governor (William Berkeley) because he wanted to take action against the Indians. When Berkeley refused, Bacon decided to take matters into his own hands. His rebellion consisted of landless servants, small farmers and slaves. By developing this type of "army" he set forth an example that African American if slaves could be used to as servants of war, they could also be used as servants, which is a form of indentured servitude.

Martin Luther King Jr., an activist and leader of the Civil Rights Movement said during his I Have a Dream speech, “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Now fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement, and that day has not come. Everyday individuals of different race, cultures and ethnicities are judged based off of the stereotypes that come from their skin color. These individuals are not given the same opportunities, fortunes, or freedoms that Caucasian people are awarded.