https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPQ_2VFUMaM&ab_channel=OurHiddenHistory
Our house cleaner, when I was young, her dad was a spiritual healer in northern Minnesota - native healer. Her last name was Morrison - a famous name due to George Morrison - the brother of her husband.
So my mom says that our housecleaner mentioned her dad being a spiritual shamanic healer when she mentioned her dad was against the children harvesting the wild rice because it was dangerous for the children.
All I remember is being impressed by this lady's sincerity as she cleaned the house - that she was the first person I had seen doing honest hard work - and I was too young to know better otherwise. She just stood out to me as a very sincere good person - and she was the first Native indigenous person I ever saw. Only I saw her on a regular basis - I just remember her outside my bedroom as I was in bed and she was cleaning the hallway.
So my claim is that I "imprinted" on her as a child - that I considered her worthy of looking up to and respecting. I had no idea that her dad was a well-known spiritual healer shaman of White Earth reservation.
Winona LaDuke reports that her great-great grandmother signed with her thumbprint for a $50 loan to pay a grocery bill. She returned a few months later to pay the bill and the Indian Trader (government worker) told her that he did not want her money since now he owned her 80 acres of lake front forest property. And that's how the land was stolen.
So the first link is Clyde Bellecourt - and here is another talk by him in 1971
So AIM was formed in 1968
Here Clyde Bellecourt talks about his NDE
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/who-killed-anna-mae.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Robinson_(activist)
After he got into a heated exchange with another activist, he was escorted to a house by a security team.[21] There Robinson grabbed a butcher knife from a table and the team gathered around him. The witness said, "The next thing, I heard a loud bang and saw Mr. Robinson's lower leg spin from the knee and rotate outward as he started to fall forward. His eyes rolled up as he went down."[19] The security team is alleged to have consisted of, among other members, Leonard Crow Dog, Carter Camp, Dennis Banks, Frank Blackhorse, Stan Holder, Harry David Hill, and Clyde Bellecourt.
AIM co-founder Clyde Bellecourt, who was at Wounded Knee for 51 days of the siege, said that he had not heard of Robinson during AIM's occupation. He only learned of the activist's name in the fall of 2013 after being approached by his widow Cheryl Buswell-Robinson.[7]
The late Vernon Bellecourt, older brother of Clyde and leader of an AIM chapter, was said to have known of Robinson's murder during the occupation. He reportedly said at one time that AIM had "really managed to keep a tight lid on that one over the years."[21]
Dick Bancroft shows off his photographs of AIM - he invited me and Wanderleia to his house - we went
Wanderleia told me about Chunyi Lin whom she had meditated with - that he was a qigong master teaching at the community college she went to. That was in 1997 that she told me and she had done qigong meditation with Chunyi maybe in 1994 or 1995 because it was just her and the philosophy professor who is friends with Chunyi.
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/11/01/uprooted-the-1950s-plan-to-erase-indian-country
Minneapolis and St. Paul had become a magnet for Native people. They were never intended to be BIA relocation cities, but the agency did set up a relocation office in Minneapolis by popular demand. Native people chose the Twin Cities because they were close enough to many reservations to allow people to go back and forth. As the Native community grew, so did their political power. Dorene's mom, Charlotte, got involved with AIM.
"Protesting the rat-infested dilapidated housing that Indian people were living in," Dorene said. "Any time there was a situation where the community was being called together to stand up for our rights, she was there."
AIM joined the takeover of Alcatraz Island off the coast of California in 1969 organized by a group called Indians of All Tribes.
Activists on the island cited a provision of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie that stated all out-of-use federal land should return to Native people. Alcatraz had been vacant since the prison closed in 1963, and they were there to collect.
https://sci-hub.do/10.2307/969660
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