Speakers discussed the American Indian Movement from its early leadership to the ... convicted of murdering two FBI agents in a 1975 shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota – Russell Means, a former American Indian Movement activist who helped lead a 1973 uprising against the U.S. government and appeared in several Hollywood films, has ...

Tensions that had been smoldering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota flared up 50 years ago this week, when activists from the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee.

A Canadian man and a South Dakota woman were charged in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member, who prosecutors say was killed because the group’s leaders suspected she was ...

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who ...

The American Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s helped shift policy focus toward self-determination for tribes. That meant tribes could start entering into contracts or compacts with the U.S ...

Two of South Dakota's largest tribes won a sweeping victory in federal court that could reverberate for tribes across the country. A federal judge has ruled that the state Department of Social ...

Three American Indian tribes in South Dakota have sued the country's top opioid manufacturers and distributors, accusing them of concealing and minimizing the addiction risk in tribal communities ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The trial of a South Dakota man accused of harassing American Indian children with racial slurs and spilling beer on them at a hockey game has ended but a judge says he won't ...

Settlement Reached After ACLU Challenged Illegal Disfranchisement . FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; [email protected] SIOUX FALLS, SD – The state of South Dakota and Shannon County, South ...

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 ...