xxii, 362 pages : 26 cm

Details the struggles of the American Indian Movement from the beginnings in the early 1970s and includes the events and people most involved in the movement, such as the occupation and destruction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D. C.; the dramatic uprising at Wounded Knee; and the burning of the courthouse at Custer, South Dakota. Provides a chronology of the movement, followed by several hundred specific entries, a bibliography, and an index. Includes people related to the movement; such as, Dennis Banks, Richard Oakes, Jane McCloud, Bernie Whitebear, and Raymond Yellow Thunder

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-352) and index

Table of contents with personal name entries entered in direct order: Henry L. Adams -- Akwesasne Mohawk Counselor Organization -- Akwesasne notes -- Alcatraz Occupation -- American Indian Movement, early history -- Americans Before Columbus -- Wallace (Mad Bear) Anderson -- Anna Mae Pictou Aquash -- Arizona American Indian Movement Chapter -- Wesley Bad Heart Bull -- Dennis Banks -- Clyde Bellecourt -- Vernon Bellecourt -- Herbert Blatchford -- "Boldt Decision" (United States v. Washington, 1974) -- Marlon Brando -- Lehman Brightman -- Norman Brown -- Louis Rooks Bruce -- Robert Burnette -- Darrell Dean (Dino) Butler -- Carter Camp -- Central Indiana AIM Support Group -- Chicago Conference -- Ward Churchill -- Frank Clearwater -- American Indian Movement, Cleveland, Ohio -- Coalition for Navajo Liberation -- American Indian Movement of Colorado -- Cornwall Bridge (Ontario) Occupation -- AIM Protests at "Custer Battlefield" -- Vine Deloria, Jr. -- Byron DeSersa -- Disenrollment -- "Dog Soldiers" -- Douglass Frank Durham -- Jimmie Durham -- James Theodore (Jimmy) Eagle -- El Centro de la Raza (Seattle) -- American Indian Movement factions -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Western Washington State fishing rights -- Florida American Indian Movement -- Jack D. Forbes -- Fort Lawton occupation (Seattle) -- Billy Frank, Jr. -- Douglas Mitchell George-Kanentiio -- Grand Governing Council -- International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) -- William Janklow -- William Moses Kunstler -- Winona LaDuke -- Frank LaMere -- Buddy Lamont -- War in Libya and AIM -- Sacheen Littlefeather -- The Longest Walks (1978 and 2008) -- Jane (Yet Si Blue) McCloud -- Russell Means -- Sidney Mills -- Miskito Indians, Nicaragua, and the American Indian Movement -- Mount Rushmore takeovers -- National Indian Youth Council -- Native North American Traveling College -- Richard M. Nixon -- Richard Oakes -- Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (OSCRO) -- Ohio and North Kentucky American Indian Movement -- Leonard Peltier -- Pine Ridge political murders -- "Red Power" movement -- Robert Eugene Robideau -- American Indian Movement, Santa Barbara California -- Snitch Jacket (Federal Bureau of Investigation) -- Sports Mascots and the American Indian Movement -- Sterilization of Native American women -- Joe Killsright Stuntz -- Survival of American Indians Association -- Thanksgiving (Plymouth Rock) protest -- Mel Thom -- Trail of Broken Treaties -- Trail of Self-Determination -- John Trudell -- United Nations Declaration on the RIghts of Indigenous Peoples -- Uranium and Navajos -- Virginia Chapter, American Indian Movement -- Walk for Justice -- Ward Valley (California) nuclear waste protest -- Clyde M. Warrior -- Floyd Red Crow Westerman -- Bernie Whitebear -- Whiteclay, Nebraska, and the American Indian Movement -- White Roots of Peace -- Richard Wilson -- Women of All Red Nations (WARN) -- Wounded Knee occupation -- Wounded Knee trials -- Raymond Yellow Thunder -- Yellow Thunder Camp

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