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This 25-page typed document was prepared for the American Indian Movement by the Native American Solidarity Committee, circa 1977. The report begins by citing statistics of poor health and living conditions as well as unemployment on Indian reservations and the exploitation of native peoples and resources by large energy companies. It details the annihilation of Indian culture in public schools and provides examples of vigilante violence against Indians. The report then provides a history of acts of resistance by the American Indian Movement culminating in the events of Wounded Knee. It lists many further activist encounters with law enforcement and FBI agents including events at the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Publication Date
1977
Document Type
Report
Keywords
American Indian Movement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, poverty, FBI, Anna Mae Aquash
Language
English
Disciplines
Indigenous Studies | Native American Studies | Political History | Social History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Native American Solidarity Committee, "Law Enforcement in the United States and its Relationship to the American Indian" (1977). American Indian Movement and Activism. 45.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/john_thomas_aim/45
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Box 7, Folder 13
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