Clyde Bellecourt
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Civil Rights, Minority Rights
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: Long an activist for the civil and spiritual rights of Native Americans, Clyde Bellecourt is a founder and director of the American Indian Movement (AIM){$IAmerican Indian Movement (AIM);and Bellecourt, Clyde H.[Bellecourt, Clyde H.]} and has played major roles in many other organizations.
Clyde H. Bellecourt became inspired to organize a movement for spiritual rights for Native Americans while serving time in Stillwater Prison, Minnesota. Along with another young prisoner, a medicine man named Edward Benton Banai, he started a class on...
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