American Indian Movement: Native Americans Fight Back | Teaching with Primary Sources

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Maryland Public Television MPT Teaching with Primary Sources Thinkport primary sources American Indian Movement AIM Native Americans political activism Native American rights Wounded Knee Pine Ridge Pine Ridge reservation Oglala Lakota Lakota Oglala American Indians Indigenous Peoples First Nations
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History-Social Science
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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American Indian Movement: Native Americans Fight Back | Teaching with Primary Sources

This inquiry kit features Library of Congress sources related to the civil rights work of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in late 1960s and early 1970s.

Thinking Questions

  • What was the American Indian Movement?
  • What did Native Americans want? Why?
  • Compare and contrast the American Indian Movement to one other civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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PBS Learning Media

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