Conduct a survey about the issues that American Indians protested during their Wounded Knee marches. Ask an adult neighbor, parent, grandparent, etc., what they know about American Indian conditions and complaints with the government. (DO NOT ASK A CHILD OR FELLOW STUDENT) If the adult mentions an issue below, mark a tally next to it.
When the adult is finished telling you the issues, find four more adults to question. ESL STUDENTS CAN ASK ONLY 2 ADULTS. EXCEPT GILTAE. Make tally marks next to the issues they mention.
Write a short paragraph summary based on your findings and turn in your tally sheets with the summary on Monday. Be sure to make the proper heading.
- poverty, housing, treaty issues, and police harassment.
- long-term leasing of American Indian land
- tribal land in upstate New York for use in a state hydropower project to supply New York City
- After the discovery of gold, the federal government took the Native American Reservation land of the Black Hills where Mt. Rushmore is in 1877 and sold it for mining and settlement to European Americans.
- 11 pieces of legislation, American Indian political prisoners, forced relocation at Big Mountain, the Navajo Nation, etc.
- protection of American Indian sacred sites, tribal sovereignty, environmental protection and action to stop global warming
- opposes national and collegiate sports teams using figures of indigenous people as mascots and team names, such as the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Washington Redskins, and has organized protests at World Series and Super Bowl games against these teams. Protesters held signs with slogans such as "Indians are people not mascots," or "Being Indian is not a character you can play."[17]
- Although sports teams had ignored such requests by individual tribes for years, AIM received attention in the mascot debate. NCAA schools such as Florida State University,University of Utah, University of Illinois and Central Michigan University have negotiated with the tribes whose names or images they had used for permission for continued use and to collaborate on portraying the mascot in a way that supposedly honors Native Americans.
- In 1972, Raymond Yellow Thunder, a 51-year-old Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Reservation, was murdered in Gordon, Nebraska, by two brothers, Leslie and Melvin Hare, younger white men. After their trial and conviction, the Hares received the minimal sentence for manslaughter. Members of AIM went to Gordon to protest the sentencing, as it was part of a pattern of law enforcement in border counties that did not provide justice to Native Americans.[19] In the winter of 1973, Wesley Bad Heart Bull, a Lakota, was stabbed to death at a bar in South Dakota by Darrell Schmitz, a white male. The offender was jailed, but released on a $5000 bond and charged with second degree manslaughter. In protest of the charges, a group of AIM members and leaders from Pine Ridge Reservation and leaders went to the county seat of Custer, South Dakota, to meet with the prosecutor. Police in riot gear allowed only four people to enter the county courthouse. The talks were not successful, and tempers rose over the police treatment; AIM activists caused $2 million in damages by attacking and burning the Custer Chamber of Commerce building, the courthouse, and two patrol cars. Many of the AIM demonstrators were arrested and charged; numerous people served sentences, including the mother of Wesley Bad Heart Bull.[2
- Richard A. "Dick" Wilson's corrupt governing on the reservation. U.S. government would not get involved. Many people were killed.
- They have challenged the ideological foundations of US national holidays, such as Columbus Day[22] and Thanksgiving. AIM argues that Thanksgiving should be a National Day of Mourning, and protests what it perceives to be the continuing theft of indigenous peoples' territories and natural resources.[citation needed] AIM has helped educate people about the full history of the US, and advocates for the inclusion of Indigenous American perspectives in U.S. history. Its efforts are recognized and supported by many institutional leaders in politics, education, arts, religion, and media.[23]
- being exploited by those marketing the sales of replicated Native American spiritual objects and impersonating sacred religious ceremonies as a tourist attraction.
- In December 2008, a delegation of Lakota Sioux, including Talon Becenti, delivered to the U.S. State Department a declaration of separation from the United States citing many broken treaties by the U.S. government in the past, and the loss of vast amounts of territory originally awarded in those treaties, the group announced its intentions to form a separate nation within the U.S. known as the Republic of Lakotah.[26]
- Food
- Work
- Education
- spearfishing
- Training
- Gangs
- Alcohol
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