PRESENTATION OUTLINE
AIM stands for American Indian Movement. AIM was started in Minneapolis in 1968 by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton, and George Mitchell.
AIM is an activist group formed by Native Americans that was was formed to help Native Americans who had been kicked off reservations by the US government and who were living in urban ghettos, but they soon started speaking up on behalf of all Native American demands.
In 1972, AIM went to the US Department of the interior and gave them a list of demands. These demands are the 20 goals for AIM and what they want the US government to do. This is why they are still around today; because the US government has not met their demands.
They have been known to have done some extreme protests. Probably their most famous one occurred on February 27, 1973, when 200 members of AIM took over the town of Wounded Knee, taking all the residents hostage. They demanded that the US government restore the treaties they made tp the Native Americans during the 19th and 20th century. The siege lasted 71 days but ended after one of the activists was shot and killed.
