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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and ...

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 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 ...