Native American Activists
Native American activism and activists
The month of November is often the only time students learn about Native Americans, and usually in the past tense or as helpless “wards of the state.”
Native American movements and activists have continued to struggle for sovereignty, dignity, and justice for their communities in the last century, and even this decade.
Many brave native american activists continue the fight for equality even today.
American Indian Movement (AIM)
- Wesley Bad Heart Bull
- Dennis Banks
- Edgar Bear Runner, Oglala Sioux
- Clyde Bellecourt
- Vernon Bellecourt
- Frank Blackhorse
- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)
- Carter Camp Obituary
- Mary Crow Dog
- Vine Deloria, Jr.
- Mildred Jeter Loving
- Russell Means
- Theodore “Ted” Means
- Ellen Moves Camp
- Herbert “Herb” Powless
- John Trudell
- Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman
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The Guardians Of Oglala Nation (known by the acronym GOONs) were thugs hired by then Tribal Chairman Dick Wilson, paid with federal money, and trained by FBI/CIA personel. Many were actually off-duty BIA police. It is alleged the Goon Squad (as they were commonly known) murdered or caused the death of nearly seventy AIM supporters on the Pine Ridge Reservation between 1973-1976.
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FALLON, Nev. — “It is difficult to miss Adam Fortunate Eagle Nordwall’s two-acre spread on the Paiute-Shoshone Reservation.
There, rising like a sacred temple out of the dusty brush, stand stacks of 5,000 fraying tires, reinforced with rusted cans and sand. They serve as the walls for what may be the first entirely recycled Native American roundhouse — even if it’s still only half-built after a decade.
“It’s a work in progress,” says Nordwall, 73, who admits the environmentally correct earth lodge is part fantasy, part folly. “One of these days, I’ll finish it.”
Fortunate Eagle, too, is a work in progress — or maybe just a piece of work.
Many of our people have forgotten the traditional way “War Stories” are used and respected in the sacred ceremonies of the people of the Sundance and Pipe, we who have always lived in the center of our turtle island. Long ago our wise ancestors understood that a powerful moment in time existed when a warrior performed a great deed and tested himself to the ultimate.
In english we call them war stories but in our own languages the story and the person chosen to tell it have names with far more meaning. War stories are actually “Warrior Stories” because they are told individually by the warrior who is bringing his actions into the circle.