American Indian Movement

British  

noun

1. a militant movement or grouping of American Indians, organized in 1968 to combat discrimination, injustice, etc

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Example Sentences

While it is not yet clear whether there will be such an organized expression of protest in 2025, one can only assume that some films will play to audiences much differently than if the election had had a different outcome, such as Jesse Short Bull and David France’s documentary “Free Leonard Peltier,” on the imprisoned leader of the American Indian Movement, Kim A. Snyder’s doc “The Librarians,” about the role of librarians amid a wave of state book bans, or Andrew Ahn’s remake of the LGBTQ+-themed “The Wedding Banquet.”

From Los Angeles Times

In the 1970s, the FBI infiltrated the highest levels of the American Indian Movement, or AIM.

From Salon

An enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe, Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, or AIM, which grabbed headlines in 1973 when it took over the village of Wounded Knee on the reservation, leading to a 71-day standoff with federal agents.

From Seattle Times

Robertson sampled Native chants, interviews with Indigenous leaders and even the words of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement leader who is in prison for the murder of an FBI Agent, but whom many legal scholars and Native activists believe is innocent.

From Salon

"Ghost Dance" mourns the genocide of Native people and the near extinction of bison, while "It is a Good Day to Die" celebrates Indigenous resistance, from the warriors of the 19th Century to the American Indian Movement of the 1970s.

From Salon