Members of the Osage Nation from Oklahoma on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C., during a visit to lobby senators over conditions among...
Native Americans at Alcatraz busily settled into their new ‘home’ on an abandoned missile base 6/15 and their spokesman said the party of 50 planned...
President Nixon is the only substitute the Alcatraz Indians will accept if Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel cannot come to the Island to...
Led by Richard Oakes who led the invasion of Alcatraz Island, 12 Indians voluntarily surrender and submit to arrest after a sit-in at the Bureau of...
View of a group of members of the American Indian Movement as they beside their trucks and a tipi during their occupation of the town of Wounded Knee...
View of several members of the American Indian Movement as they stand next to a sweat lodge erected on a hill below the Sacred Heart Church during...
Hank Adams, center, a spokesman for the dissident Indians who seized and sacked the Bureau of Indian Affaires offices, told a news conference the...
Keshena, WI: An Indian demonstrator wrapped in a U.S. Flag prepares to dance in front of a police roadblock to protest the establishment of such...
American Indian girl is wrapped in an upside down American flag as she and a group of about 500 American Indians occupy an auditorium 11/2 at the...
Mad Bear, a Tuscarora Indian from near Niagara Falls, N.Y. Holds a burning N.Y.S. Supreme Court Injunction. The injunction forbids the Indians of the...
Washington, DC- Actor Marlon Brando is shown here addressing a rally of American Indians in Malcolm X park, after the Indians completed their...
Group of Sioux Indians protest at Alcatraz in an attempt to claim the land under the allowances provided in an 1868 treaty with the U.S. Government.
Indian girl, one of 78 who invaded Alcatraz Island for the second time within two weeks, paints sign reading "Indian American Land" on wall of...
Car carrying Harlington Wood, Assistant Attorney General, is surrounded by armed Indian militants as he is escorted to a checkpoint leaving Wounded...
Wounded Knee, S.D.: An Indian brave from the American Indian Movement stands guard outside the Catholic Church at Wounded Knee, S.D. Indian and...
Militant American Indian leaders, refusing to obey a court order to vacate Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters, armed themselves with make-shift...
Come to Terms. Wounded Knee, S.D.: American Indian Movement leader Russell Means shakes hands with U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kent Frizzell, as...
Dennis Banks, a leader of the American Indian Movement wears a pistol as he talks with newmen at Wounded Knee, SD, on the Pine Ridge Indian...
Pine Ridge, S.D.: Richard Wilson, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, revels a previously unreleased list given to him and later...
Richmond, CA.: Some 50 Native Americans took over an abandoned Nike site after the U. S. Government ended their 19 month occupation of Alcatraz...
Richmond, CA.: Some 50 Native Americans took over an abandoned Nike site after the U. S. Government ended their 19 month occupation of Alcatraz...
Richmond, CA.: John Trudell, leader of the party of some 50 Indians who occupied an abandoned Nike site near here early June 14th, talks to newsmen....
American flag flies upside down 3/6 as meeting takes place outside church on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Wounded Knee, a tiny hamlet held by...
Militant American Indians offered 11/3 to to end their four day takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs if given adequate food and sanitary...
Wounded Knee, SD: An armed Indian militant lowers his face to shield it from the cold biting wind and snow and also to shield his identity as he...
Attorney William Kunstler attends a meeting where American Indian Movement leaders Dennis Banks, Russell Means and Carter Camp discuss the proposals...
American Indian Movement leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks dispute a statement that was made by a government spokesman on March 9th, in which...
Wounded Knee, SD: Rev Ralph Abernathy confers with leaders of the American Indian Movement, Russell Means and Dennis Banks, at Wounded Knee, SD, on...
Mobridge, SD- Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement national executive, speaks at a general assembly June 10 at which he announced he has resigned...
St. Paul, MN: Russell Means, a leader of the American Indian Movement , currently on trial in St. Paul for his role in the 71 day occupation of...
St. Paul, MN: Leaders of the American Indian Movement Russell Means and Dennis Banks are to go on trial 1/8 in Federal District Court in St. Paul,...
Wounded Knee, SD: A lone Indian sentry stands on lookout as first light breaks over the horizon at Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Indian...
Washington, D.C.: Indian militancy as evidenced in the takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs has trained a spotlight on Indian grievances against...
Wounded Knee, SD: View of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, overlooking an Indian teepee set up by the militant American Indian Movement . The...
An American Indian Movement soldier waves an AK-47 automatic weapon in a victory salute after learning of a cease fire agreement between AIM forces...
Wounded Knee, S.D.: Oscar Running Bear, a member of the American Indian Movement strikes a classic pose as he stands with his rifle at Wounded Knee,...
Buffalo, NY: Buffalo members of the Iroquois Indian tribe- Canadian born -staged a war dance in a public square on the eve of deadline for alien...
Members of various Native American tribes of New York state picket in front of the capitol building in Albany for the return of wampum belts taken by...
Members of the American Indian Movement and local Oglala Sioux stand guard outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church after taking control of the town...
The attorneys and witnesses for the Yankton Sioux, who are supporting the tribe's legitimate claim to the Red Pipestone Quarry in Minnesota. White...
Comanche Native American social activist and politician LaDonna Harris speaking at a Citizens' Party event in Cleveland, Ohio, April 13th 1980....
Chumash medicine man and actor Semu Huaute passes the peace pipe to the elders, while in the background Native Americans feast on Thanksgiving turkey...
Native Americans, one carrying a placard reading ' We are opposed to assimilation! Help us to remain as North American Indians!,' as they hold a...
Several hundred Native American activists demanding better treatment of their people, seized the offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and...
Group of Native Americans end a 24-hour occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, winning a promise of White House consideration of their protest...
Native American activist George Crows Fly High, wearing an 'Indian Power' button and traditional clothing, accompanied by Martha Grass, leads...
Native American activist LaNada Means with an architect's model of a proposed cultural center on the first anniversary of their occupation of...
Native American activist LaNada Means addresses a press conference alongside an artist's impression of a proposed cultural center on the first...
Native American youths occupying the abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, enjoy a bit of relaxation by playing...
Spokesmen for the Native American cause at a hearing before Indian Affairs Committee departing from the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, 3rd...
View, looking upwards, of an American flag, with a superimposed image of a Native American, as it flies from a sign at a souvenir stand, Arizona,...
Signs reading 'Alcatraz Headquarters' and 'Visitors Register Here' during the Occupation of Alcatraz protest on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, 1970....
Native American civil rights activist and professor Lehman Brightman addresses protesters at the conclusion of 'The Longest Walk' demonstration to...
American Indian Movement members, involved in "The Longest Walk," to protest anti-Indian legislation, gather on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to...
American Indian Movement members, involved in "The Longest Walk," to protest anti-Indian legislation, walk along the Mall in Washington, DC, going to...
Soviet Union anti-American Protest Poster, illustrated by Victor Koretsky 1986. American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier behind bars created...
President Joe Biden signs an executive order at the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit at the U.S. Department of Interior on December 6, 2023 in...
Dilapidated prison truck 'reclaimed' by Native Americans reads 'Indian car; welcome' during the takeover of Alcatraz Island by a group of Native...
View of Alcatraz Federal Prison decorated with slogans and signs during the takeover of Alcatraz Island by a group of Native Americans, San...
