Injustice In The American Indian Movement

The commonality of various injustices around the world is astounding. Such social catastrophes can be small daily occurrences or have disastrous long-term implications. Moral courage is necessary in order to prevent and further aid those who have been devastated by events so gruesome as the Holocaust. Specifically in North America, the injustices done to the Native American peoples are both overlooked and lacks discussion in both the history classroom. These people, indigenous to North America, have been brutally removed from their land by various European entities throughout the course of history. Assimilation, segregation, oppression, and violence are just some of the many problems Native Americans faced. Overtime, the American Indian Movement has fought such injustices and aided them in their battle to embrace their culture while …show more content…
Many new Native American’s who were watching from the side began to enter the movement’s community. It is this time when their latest protest, inhabiting the surrounding land of Alcatraz, took place. According to the article, it is during this protest that “AIM finally became a force to be reckoned with” (American Indian Movement 3). While living on sacred land of Native Americans based on oral history, people from the movement began to send out radio broadcasts off of the island of Alcatraz. The controversy lies, however, in the takeover of federal property, despite its historical belonging to the Native Americans. United States government officials met with the group to answer the American Indian Movements demands in exchange for peacefully leaving Alcatraz. After nearly a year, the American Indian Movement left the island, but not before newspapers and media slandered the group by exaggerating small acts of misconduct that may have taken place while living in the area (American Indian Movement