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American Indian Movement - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music |
 | | The American Indian Movement (AIM), is a Native American civil rights group in the United States that burst on the national scene with its seizure of Alcatraz Island in 1968, the BIA headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. |
 | | Another who contributed greatly to the AIM was Leonard Peltier, who is currently serving a prison term relating to his involvement in the hostage standoff with federal law enforcement agents at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. |
 | | AIM has been the subject of much controversy, some of it centering around the 1977 trial of Leonard Peltier, an AIM leader with apparent involvement in the 1975 Pine Ridge murders of two FBI agents. |
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