The American Indian Movement was established in Minneapolis more than 50 years ago in response to police brutality. After ICE agents flooded the city this winter, neighborhoods reprised citizen ...

Images by the late photographer Dick Bancroft are now permanently displayed at the college after a donation from family members including explorer Ann Bancroft, his daughter. Visitors look at a ...

The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation Dennis Zotigh Two Natives waiting for the fire fight, ...

GREEN BAY - Members representing the American Indian Movement, Wisconsin Chapter, rallied in Green Bay Monday calling for the release of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in ...

Sometime toward the end of the eighteen-eighties, a Paiute holy man named Wovoka had a vision that promised the rebirth and renewal of Indigenous nations on the North American continent. His prophecy ...

Leonard Peltier, 80, sits in his bedroom on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota on June 18. A campaign poster for Deb Haaland’s 2026 New Mexico gubernatorial run hangs ...

Courtesy of The Bob Fitch Photography Archive at Stanford University Libraries The Diné Bikeyah Chapter of the American Indian Movement plans to hold a march and prayer service beginning at 9 a.m.

Tensions that had been smoldering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota flared up 50 years ago this week, when activists from the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee.

In 1973, hundreds of Native American activists occupied the town of Wounded Knee to demand the US government fulfill its treaties with tribes. The siege galvanized the movement for Indigenous rights ...

A member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, Ned Blackhawk is a professor of history and American Studies at Yale University and the author of Violence over the Land: Indians ...

A man holds up a rifle in Wounded Knee, S.D., in February 1973. On Feb. 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement took over the town, starting a 71-day occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian ...