#American Indian Movement (AIM)

[kropotkindersurprise]

February 19, 2025 - Leonard Peltier is finally out of prison! If you happen to be near Belcourt, North Dakota, you can welcome him home today. [link]

[olowan-waphiya]

Peltier will remain under house confinement, likely for the rest of his life. Still, human rights advocates and Indigenous activists who have campaigned for decades for Peltier to be granted clemency celebrated the action.

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At the time of his conviction, Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement, a grassroots movement that was founded in 1968 to advocate for Indigenous rights and sovereignty in the United States. He was charged under dubious circumstances for the killing of two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. After being charged, he fled to Canada; he was extradited and sent back to the U.S. to face trial in 1977.

Indigenous advocates and human rights organizations have long maintained that Peltier was not given a fair trial. Evidence that could have exonerated him — including ballistics showing that the bullets that killed the two agents were not fired from Peltier’s weapon — was withheld from his lawyers. Testimony that led to the Canadian government agreeing to his extradition was also perjured.

[garadinervi]

Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Leaves Prison, (audio), Prison Radio, January 22, 2025

(image: via freeleonardpeltiernow.org)

[coochiequeens]

With all the outrage over Trump pardoning the Jan 6 rioters let's not overlook that one of Bidens clemencys was complicit in the murder and cover up of a woman and the media brushes that crime under the rug.

Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975 [1][2]) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined other First Nations and Indigenous Americans focused on education, resistance, and police brutality against urban Indigenous peoples. She was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and participated in several occupations with them. In December 1975, she was kidnapped and murdered in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by members of AIM. Her body was later found in February 1976. In the 2000s, several members of AIM were convicted of kidnapping and murdering her.

[skellymom]

Apologies for coming late to this...

But it's about time! Hopefully Leonard Peltier will be able to inspire and rally the people to stand up!!!

Glad this man is home with his family and has peace the rest of his days. <3

Miinshinaag mina-de'ewin, wii-mina nokiitaadiyang

Give us peace in our hearts, so that we can work together well

[misfitwashere]

Free Leonard Peltier.

From Huffington Post:

The U.S. government put Peltier in prison in 1977 after he was convicted for killing two FBI agents in a 1975 shoot-out on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

There was never evidence that Peltier committed this crime. The FBI and U.S. attorney’s office never did figure out who killed those agents.

But Peltier, who was one of dozens of people present at the shoot-out, was the only person left for them to go after. He had been separated from his co-defendants, all of whom had already been acquitted on grounds of self-defense. Prosecutors in his trial hid key evidence. The FBI threatened and coerced witnesses into lying. On the second day of the trial, a juror admitted she was biased against Native Americans but was kept on.

Peltier has maintained his innocence the entire time he’s been in prison. He had a chance to be released in 2009 when he was up for parole, but it would have required him to say that he murdered the two FBI agents. He wouldn’t do it. His parole was denied.

You may not know Leonard Peltier's story. I encourage you to give an old man five minutes of your time and read the article.

[amastelle]

[buttacake80]

A statement from Anna Mae Aquash who was murdered by members of the American Indian Movement in 1975. Her family believes that Leonard Peltier was involved.

However, he was prosecuted & convicted for the deaths of 2 FBI agents.

He will continue to serve his sentence but under house arrest.

[oldshowbiz]

[jlb1982]

https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Indian-Movement

[misanthropicshenanigans]

Okay. I believe I am very good at looking for photo credits for images like this. I have a Master's in anthropology, I've taught classes on Indigenous history. I work at a university library.

I. Cannot find where this image came from. Beyond the basic google image search, I have looked through the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian and several AIM-focused archive sites and archives based in Minnesota, where AIM was founded through grassroots. As well as scanned through some books on the Internet Archive.

This is a photograph of someone from the American Indian Movement (AIM) at what I assume is a protest. I'm not good enough with cars to determine the make and model of the ones in the picture. Because of when AIM was most active and the general fashion in the picture, I assume the 1970s, maybe mid- to late- 1970s.

I tried searching just the phrase on the sign. nothing. I tried finding the design on the flag. nothing. I Sincerely wish good luck to anyone who tries!

“Amerika-You Are Living on the Blood of the Indian Nation” Photo credit: Does anyone know where this image was taken, who took it, and when it was taken?

[nando161mando]

Slipknot - Custer - AMV [GORE] (FLASH WARNING)

[neechees]

Also reminder that zionists are lying about the red handprint representing an incident in which in the year 2000, two Israeli iof soldiers were killed when entering Palestinian territory, and that Native Americans are using the red handprint to celebrate this event and to be "antisemitic" so remember not to feed into that bullshit.

The creator of the red handprint to represent mmiw probably chose it to mean what red handprint usually mean for modern day symbolism (death, murder, etc), and the fact that various warriors in Turtle Island would decorate themselves with war paint, including hands over the mouth (so the implication here is that mmiw are fallen warriors), and this is represented in art like below, which is a painting from George Catlin from 1882 on the left, and additionally, it mightve been homage to the American Indian Movement's logo, which was a red handprint. On the right is the AIM logo from 1973.

[guerillas-of-history]

American Indian Movement (AIM) Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1973

[tamlins-stories-and-poems]

A related anthem: Joe Troop’s Free Leonard Peltier

The 50th anniversary of AIMs (American Indian Movement's) occupation at Wounded Knee is coming up, so the Lakota People's Law Project is leading another push to free an AIM activist who was wrongly convicted of killing two federal agents in 1975- Leonard Peltier. He was convicted on false evidence and false testimony and sentenced to two life sentences. He is now 78.

LPL has a formatted email up on their website now which you can personalize and send to Biden to ask for clemency. (Please personalize emails like this so it doesn't get filtered as spam. Just move some words around, add some, take some, you don't have to write a whole email.) Please pass this around.