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Members of the American Indian Movement

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The list Members of the American Indian Movement includes Russell Means, John Trudell, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman, Richard Ray Whitman and Dennis Banks. The list consists of 39 members.

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American Indian Movement
United States civil rights organization
  • 1.

    Russell Means
    Oglala Sioux activist for the rights of Native American people
    Russell Means
    Overview: Russell Charles Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, writer and musician. He became a p ...
    Date of birth: 10 November 1939
    Date of death: 22 October 2012
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    Oglala people 38T
    21st-century American male writers 6,175T
    20th-century American male writers 8,958T
  • 2.

    John Trudell
    Native American activist, author, and poet (1946–2015)
    John Trudell
    Overview: John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover ...
    Date of birth: 15 February 1946
    Date of death: 8 December 2015
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    American spoken word poets 57T
    San Bernardino Valley College alumni 25T
    2015 deaths 9,624T
  • 3.

    Sacheen Littlefeather
    American, Activist
    Sacheen Littlefeather
    Overview: Maria Louise Cruz (November 14, 1946 – October 2, 2022), better known as Sacheen Littlefeather, was an American actress, model, and activist for Native American civil rights who after her death was accused ...
    Date of birth: 30 January 1947
    Date of death: 2 October 2022
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Deaths from breast cancer in California 101T
    American people who self-identify as being of Yaqui descent 10T
    American people who self-identify as being of Apache descent 25T
  • 4.

    Dennis Banks
    Indigenous activist
    Dennis Banks
    Overview: Dennis Banks (Ojibwe, April 12, 1937 – October 29, 2017) was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in Minneapolis ...
    Date of birth: 12 April 1937
    Date of death: 29 October 2017
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Native American candidates for Vice President of the United States 7T
    Domo Records artists 20T
    2017 deaths 9,904T
  • 5.

    Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
    Native American entertainer
    Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
    Overview: Floyd Westerman, also known as Kanghi Duta ("Red Crow" in Dakota) (August 17, 1936 – December 13, 2007), was a Dakota Sioux musician, political activist, and actor. After establishing a career as a country ...
    Date of birth: 17 August 1936
    Date of death: 13 December 2007
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate 14T
    People from Sisseton, South Dakota 14T
    Singers from South Dakota 12T
  • 6.

    Richard Ray Whitman
    Contemporary Yuchi-Muscogee Creek visual artist, videographer, poet, and actor
    Richard Ray Whitman
    Overview: Richard Ray Whitman (born 1949) is a Yuchi-Muscogee Creek multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and actor. He is enrolled in the Muscogee Creek Nation and lives in Oklahoma.
    Date of birth: 14 May 1949
    Age: 75
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Yuchi 6T
    Native American male actors 94T
    Native American painters 159T
  • 7.

    Anna Mae Aquash
    Native American Activist
    Anna Mae Aquash
    Overview: Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and ...
    Date of birth: 27 March 1945
    Date of death: December 1975
    Age: 30 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Sipekneꞌkatik First Nation 10T
    Missing person cases in South Dakota 2T
    Women murder victims 442T
  • 8.

    Ward Churchill
    Political activist
    Ward Churchill
    Overview: Ward LeRoy Churchill (born 1947) is an American author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007. The primary focus of his ...
    Date of birth: 2 October 1947
    Age: 77
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War 871T
    20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
    21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,037T
  • 9.

    Leonard Peltier
    American Indian activist
    Leonard Peltier
    Overview: Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is an American activist and convicted murderer. An activist for Native American civil rights and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, he joined ...
    Date of birth: 12 September 1944
    Age: 80
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    2020 United States vice-presidential candidates 8T
    Native American candidates for Vice President of the United States 5T
    20th-century memoirists 804T
  • 10.
    Overview: Sundance is an American Indian civil rights activist. He is perhaps best known for being one of several prominent American Indians to spearhead the movement against the use of Native American imagery as ...
    Occupation: Activist
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  • 11.

    Arlo Looking Cloud
    Former Native American activist
    Overview: Arlo Looking Cloud (born Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud; March 25, 1954) is a former Native American activist. He is perhaps best known for his involvement with the murder of fellow American Indian Movement ...
    Date of birth: 25 March 1954
    Age: 70
    Occupation: Activist
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    Jackson County, South Dakota 4T
    Crimes in South Dakota 8T
    1970s in South Dakota 4T
  • 12.
    Overview: Lorelei DeCora Means, born Lorelei De Cora, was a Native American nurse and civil rights activist. She is best known for her role in the second siege in the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    American women environmentalists 197T
    American women nurses 556T
    American women activists 856T
  • 13.

    Carter Camp
    American activist
    Carter Camp
    Overview: Carter Camp (August 18, 1941, Pawnee, Oklahoma – December 27, 2013, White Eagle, Oklahoma) (Ponca) was an American Indian Movement activist. Camp played a leading role in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties ...
    Date of birth: 18 August 1941
    Date of death: 27 December 2013
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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    2013 deaths 9,323T
    Ponca 17T
    People from Pawnee, Oklahoma 13T
  • 14.

    Robert Robideau
    American activist
    Robert Robideau
    Overview: Robert Eugene Robideau (November 11, 1946 – February 17, 2009) was an American Indian activist who was acquitted in the 1975 shooting deaths of two FBI agents in South Dakota.
    Date of birth: 11 November 1946
    Date of death: 17 February 2009
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Roosevelt High School (Oregon) alumni 12T
    Activists from Portland, Oregon 39T
    20th-century Native Americans 305T
  • 15.

    Hank Adams
    Activist
    Overview: Henry Lyle "Hank" Adams (1943 – 21 December 2020), Sioux-Assiniboine) was a Native American rights activist who was based in Washington state for much of his life. His activities took him to Washington ...
    Date of birth: 16 May 1943
    Date of death: 21 December 2020
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    2020 deaths 11,737T
    People from Wolf Point, Montana 9T
    Military personnel from Washington (state) 33T
  • 16.

    Vernon Bellecourt
    American activist
    Vernon Bellecourt
    Overview: Vernon Bellecourt (WaBun-Inini) (October 17, 1931 – October 13, 2007) was a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe (located in Minnesota), a Native American rights activist, and a leader in the American ...
    Date of birth: 17 October 1931
    Date of death: 13 October 2007
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    White Earth Band of Ojibwe 11T
    20th-century Native Americans 305T
    Ojibwe people 199T
  • 17.

    Clyde Bellecourt
    White Earth Ojibwe activist
    Overview: Clyde Howard Bellecourt (May 8, 1936 – January 11, 2022) was a civil rights organizer noted for co-founding the American Indian Movement (AIM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968 with Dennis Banks, Eddie ...
    Date of birth: 8 May 1936
    Date of death: 11 January 2022
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    20th-century Native Americans 305T
    Ojibwe people 199T
    Indigenous activists 62T
  • 18.

    Reuben Snake
    Ho-Chunk activist, educator
    Overview: Reuben Alvis Snake, Jr. (1937–1993) was an American Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) activist, educator, spiritual leader, and tribal leader. He served as a leader within the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the ...
    Date of birth: 1937
    Date of death: 1993
    Age: 55 (age at death)
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  • 19.
    Overview: A member of Standing Rock in North and South Dakota, Phyllis Young has been an American Indian rights activist (Lakota/Dakota) for more than 40 years. She is most widely known for her leadership role in ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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  • 20.

    Debra White Plume
    Native American activist
    Overview: Debra White Plume (Lakota: Wioweya Najin Win, August 20, 1954 – November 10, 2020) was a Lakota political activist and water protector. She fought to protect the traditional Oglala Lakota way of ...
    Date of birth: 20 August 1954
    Date of death: 10 November 2020
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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