Dennis Zotigh poses for a photo outside the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Many tribes even have their own national anthems known as flag songs that ...

Dennis Zotigh poses for a photo outside the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., in November. Many tribes have their own national anthems known as flag songs that focus on ...

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 ...

Banks gained national recognition during the 1973 armed standoff between Native American activists and federal authorities at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The ...

In 1968, fed up with unlawful arrests, police violence, and poverty, a group of Natives in Minneapolis launched the American Indian Movement, an organization dedicated to addressing chronic ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — 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.