The American Indian Movement

Looking Cloud currently serves his punishment and John Graham, facing a forced retreat in Canada to help murder. Both of them appealed to the lawsuit before being sentenced, but the evidence pointed out these cases. For example, Looking Cloud acknowledged that he committed a murder under video surveillance, and the judge of the Graham case declared him guilty because he saw the testimony he did to Cloud. In addition, regarding this topic, AIM also did a lot of activities to attract attention of the United States.

The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an indigenous American event organization established in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968 and its agenda focuses on spirituality, leadership and sovereignty. Native Americans participated in social movements through the 20th century, but the Alcatraz - Red Power Movement (ARPM), unlike past movements, demands that they participate in US agencies while maintaining their cultural identity To do. The decline in ARPM in the latter half of the 1970s was due to FBI's suppression and intrusion by COINTELPRO, a secret operation at the time, which was primarily trying to "offset" radical organizations with strong disagreement with the federal government did. During the three years of the injured knee II siege, 69 members and AIM supporters were violently killed at the time of booking.

Pine Ridge Su will gather members of the American Indian Movement (Bancroft & Wittstock 2013, 71) to help plan and carry out occupations. Only three months ago the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied the Indian Affairs Bureau of Washington, DC. Under the occupation of the BIA building, AIM and its allies heard their voices and promoted a change to a nationwide platform, a revolutionary achievement of American indigenous people (Bancroft & Wittstock 2013, 58-61).