Speakers discussed the American Indian Movement from its early leadership to the ... convicted of murdering two FBI agents in a 1975 shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota – Russell Means, a former American Indian Movement activist who helped lead a 1973 uprising against the U.S. government and appeared in several Hollywood films, has ...

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who ...

On Feb. 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee, starting a 71-day occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

A Canadian man and a South Dakota woman were charged in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member, who prosecutors say was killed because the group’s leaders suspected she was ...

The American Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s helped shift policy focus toward self-determination for tribes. That meant tribes could start entering into contracts or compacts with the U.S ...

Federal Judge Says South Dakota Officials Violated Native American Families' Rights : The Two-Way Two of the state's largest tribes win class action lawsuit alleging that the state routinely put ...

Settlement Reached After ACLU Challenged Illegal Disfranchisement . FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; [email protected] SIOUX FALLS, SD – The state of South Dakota and Shannon County, South ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The trial of a South Dakota man accused of harassing American Indian children with racial slurs and spilling beer on them at a hockey game has ended but a judge says he won't ...

At times, the American Indian Movement’s tactics were militant, ... the group took over Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1973 to protest U.S. and tribal governments.

Eddie Benton-Banai, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, is remembered for his advocacy of Indigenous peoples. Started in the late 1960s, AIM advocated for Indigenous rights and protested ...