An Overview of the AIM
Second Wounded Knee
Indian Right to Self-Determination
Trail of Broken Treaties
Dennis Banks
100
The amount of Native Americans that left the reservations.
What is 118,000 people?
100
The state where Wounded Knee was is located.
What is South Dakota?
100
The president who supported Indian Self-Determination.
Who was Richard Nixon?
100
The American Indian Movement wanted to push native issues to the front of the presidential campaign
What is the purpose of the American Indian Movement traveling across the US?
100
A Native American activist that co-founded the American Indian Movement.
Who is Dennis Banks?
200
The right to be treated with the same respect as others and the ability to live the way that they wanted.
What did the American Indian Movement want?
200
The groups of people who seized Wounded Knee.
Who are the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) and the American Indian Movement?
200
With self-determination, Native Americans would be able to choose these, and the Federal government would help them.
What are policies?
200
During the march in Washington, Native Americans planed to present their ideas and goals to revive treaty making in the form of the...
What is the Twenty Points Position Paper?
200
A walk which took place in San Francisco and ended in Washington D.C.
What is the Walk for Justice?
300
The program which deconstructed reservations and relocated American Indians.
What is the Burea of Indian Affair's Relocation Program.
300
The cause for the capture and siege of Wounded Knee.
What is the impeachment of Oglala tribal chairman Richard Wilson OR reopening treaty negotiations and honoring those already made?
300
A policy that would allow Native Americans to govern themselves while still being able to receive Federal government policies they choose.
What is Indian Self-Determination?
300
A march in Washington that the American Indian Movement used to influence the nation on native issues.
What is the Trail of Broken Treaties?
300
Dennis Banks was the head of this campaign.
What is the "Bring Peltier Home" campaign?
400
Issues American Indians had to face.
What is a lower average age at death,a higher infant mortality rate, a higher tuberculosis rate, and higher than normal suicide rate, poverty, bad living conditions, and unfair treatment and judgement by police and government? (any one is acceptable)
400
Why the American Indian Movement chose Wounded Knee, South Dakota to seize and occupy rather than a different city.
What is the symbolic value from the first Battle of Wounded Knee where many were killed a battle in the American Indian War?
400
The current policy before self-determination that would have eventually made it so that Native Americans would not have any special policies with the Federal government.
What is the termination policy?
400
American Indians used this tactic to portray their ideas on the Federal Indian Policy.
What is mass media?
400
The purpose of the Walk for Justice.
What is to raise awareness for Native issues?
500
Native Americans at this time had a ___ lower average age at death.
What is 33%?
500
How the Second Battle of Wounded Knee ended and its effects.
What is the AIM surrendering and more attention being brought to the issue?
500
The problems with termination and reasons for self-determination.
What is that termination disrespected Native Americans, Native Americans had their own lifestyle, were being discriminated against, had bad current living conditions, would be able to self govern themselves to an extent, could have Federal government policies, etc? (any are acceptable)
500
The AIM used mass media in an attempt to sway depictions of themselves by having sympathetic news reports which allowed them to have...
What is stronger political support?
500
This campaign brought Native Americans together in a national drive for the political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
What is the "Bring Home Peltier" campaign?
M
e
n
u