who started the american indian movement
The American Indian Movement was created in 1968 in Minneapolis by Chippewa (Ojibway) Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, and Clyde Bellecourt, and Lakota-Dakota Sioux Russell Means. AIM is well known for its involvement in the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, and the seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972.t was the Civil Rights movement of the American Indian. One of the key events in the Red Power movement was the Occupation of Alcatraz. The occupation started on November 20, 1969 with 79 Indians disembarking on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, and ended 19 months and 9 days later on June 11, 1971.