RED POWER MOVEMENT

American Indian Movement

• Founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group organized to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. Particularly in its early years, AIM also protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans.

National Indian youth Council

Frustrated with what they saw as a lack of action, a group of young Native American college students decided to split from the NCAI and create the National Indian Youth Council. Founded in 1961 in Gallup, New Mexico, the NIYC activated a sense of national pride among young Native Americans

Clyde Warrior

• Clyde Warrior. Clyde Merton Warrior (1939-1968) was a Native American activist and leader, orator and one of the founders of the National Indian Youth Council. He participated in the March on Washington and the War on Poverty in the 1960s and was a charismatic speaker on Indian self-determination
  

Mary Brave Bird

• Mary Brave Bird, also known as Mary Brave Woman Olguin,Mary Crow Dog (September 26, 1954 - February 14, 2013) was a Sicangu Lakota writer and activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s .