WHAT IS THE AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT?
Things will never be same again and that is what the American Indian Movement is about … They are respected by many, hated by some, but they are never ignored … They are the catalyst for Indian Sovereignty … They intend to raise questions in the minds of all, questions that have gone to sleep in the minds of Indians and non-Indian alike … From the outside, AIM people are tough people, they had to be … AIM was born out of the dark violence of police brutality and voiceless despair of Indian people in the courts of Minneapolis, Minnesota … AIM was born because a few knew that it was enough, enough to endure for themselves and all others like them who were people without power or rights … AIM people have known the insides of jails; the long wait; the no appeal of the courts for Indians, because many of them were there … From the inside AIM people are cleansing themselves; many have returned to the old traditional religions of their tribes, away from the confused notions of
