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American Indian Movement (AIM): Secondary Sources: Books & Articles

Articles

"The American Indian Struggle," by Gillian Ronson.
In Discussion Bulletin, vol. 36, no. 23 (July 1979), pages 3-13.
MNHS call number: E93 .R66 1979

"Russell Means: The Profound and Outspoken Activist Shares Some of His Most Ardent Convictions," by John Edgar Wideman.
In Modern Maturity, vol. 38, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1995), pages 68-79.
MNHS call number: E99 .O3 M388 1995

Books

We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement, photographs by Dick Bancroft and text by Laura Waterman Wittstock.  
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2013.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E98 .T77 B35 2013, also available for purchase

Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement,
by Rex Weyler.
New York: Everest House, 1982.
MNHS call number: E93 .W64

The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Domestic Dissent, by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall.
Boston: South End Press, 1990.
MNHS call number: HV8144.F43 C48 1990

Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities, by Julie L. Davis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 
MNHS call number: E97.65 .M6 D38 2013

Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials, by John William Sayer. 
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
MNHS call number: KF 224.B27 S39 1997

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, by Peter Matthiessen.
New York: Viking Press, 1983.
MNHS call number: E 93 .M46 1983

Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement, by Kenneth S. Stern.
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
MNHS call number: KF 224.B36 S74 1994

Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance, by Leonard Peltier.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
MNHS call number: E 99.O3 P45 1999

Renegades: The Second Battle of Wounded Knee, by Susan L.M. Huck.
Belmont, Mass.: American Opinion, 1973.
MNHS call number: E 99.O3 H84

Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means, by Russell Means, with Marvin J. Wolf.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
MNHS call number: E 99.O3 M386 1995

Wounded Knee: The Meaning and Significance of the Second Incident, by Rolland Dewing.
New York: Irvington Publishers, 1985.
MNHS call number: E 99 .O3 D48 1985

The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country, by Steve Hendricks. 
New York : Thunder’s Mouth Press, c2006.
MNHS call number: E93 .H46 2006

Video

Hanta Po All of You Out of My Way, A Photographic Retrospective of the American Indian Movementproducer, David Zierott ; video production, SPNN.
Minneapolis, Minn. : American Indian Movement, [2006?]
Spokesman for The American Indian Movement Vernon Bellecourt and photographer Dick Bancroft recount the stories behind an exhibit of Bancroft’s AIM-related photography.
MNHS call number: DVD 27

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