FILE - in this Nov. 4, 1971 file photo, Eddie Benton, a holy man of the Chippewa Indian Tribe, shows a prayer he wrote to Linda Jeffers, of Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., a member of the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Clyde Bellecourt, one of the original founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), passed away today due to complications with cancer, according to Lisa Bellanger, Co-Director of the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Clyde Bellecourt, a leader in the Native American struggle for civil rights and a founder of the American Indian Movement, has died. He was 85. Bellecourt died Tuesday morning of cancer ...

Eddie Benton-Banai, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, is remembered for his advocacy of Indigenous peoples. Started in the late 1960s, AIM advocated for Indigenous rights and protested ...

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Tamil Nadu's fight against Hindi imposition is not just politics - it is a fierce movement woven into the state's social and cultural fabric. Tamil Nadu's argument is simple: Why should a language be ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - For more than five decades, members of the Cleveland American Indian Movement have gathered at the home stadium of the Cleveland Indians on Opening Day to send a message. “We ...

A group of women shout slogans as they arrive to join protesting farmers at the border between Delhi and Haryana state, Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri India’s powerful farmers ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eddie Benton-Banai, who helped found the American Indian Movement partly in response to alleged police brutality against Indigenous people, has died. He was 89. Benton-Banai died ...