Dennis Banksco-founded theAmerican Indian Movement (AIM)in 1968.Russell Means(left) joined the organization shortly thereafter. The two iconic Native American Indian leaders were key activists and spokespersons for the historicWounded Knee incident(1973), and theNative American Occupation of Alcatraz Is...
Peltier was a leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM), which in 1973 led an occupation of Wounded Knee, the site in South Dakota where the U.S. military massacred 300 Lakota people in 1890, to protest violations of their Treaty rights. In response, U.S. law enforcem...
Parsons, Jim
As the occupation entered its third week, life in the village settled down to an idyllic pace. Indians lounged outside and in the trading post, or built bunkers into the hills that surround Wounded Knee. But the armed personnel carriers that stared down on the embattled village provided a c...
but Brando insteadsent activist Sacheen Littlefeather in his placeto deliver a speech about the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood in light of the occupation and protests at Wounded Knee. Littlefeather was met with abuse and boos during her speech, with an outraged John Wayne apparently hav...
Terrence Malick, one of America’s most respected filmmakers, first attracted attention through Badlands (1973) a film very much in the same mold as Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Robert Altman’s Thieves like Us (1974) in that it is about a young couple going on a robbery...
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Some members of the audience clapped. Others booed. Unflustered, Littlefeather noted that Brando’s rejection of the Oscar was also prompted by Native American activists’occupationof Wounded Knee in South Dakota, which had started several weeks earlier. ...