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- HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES / AIM'S FOUNDING
- WE HAVE NEEDED TO COME TOGETHER AND CHANGE THIS. OUR PEOPLE CANNOT LIVE THIS WAY.
- WE MUST FIGHT. WE WILL BE HEARD.
- WE HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED AND ABUSED. THAT IS WHY I'VE CREATED THE AIM. I WILL MAKE SURE WE ARE HEARD.
- IIN THE LATE 1960'S, NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES CONTINUED TO FACE SOCIAL AND SYSTEMIC INJUSTICES. AIM was founded in 1968 to address the systemic mistreatment of Native peoples (Kehoe, 1992, 134).
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- GOALS OF AIM
- WE DON'T WANT THEIR MONEY, WE WANT WHAT HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM US
- I HEAR YOU ALL. WE MUST GATHER SUPPORT. TIMES ARE CHANGING. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE LISTENING.
- WE MUST LIVE WITH DIGNITY, ON OUR OWN
- AIM WANTED TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR THEIR NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES We don't want handouts. We want to live with dignity. (O'Hara, 2018).
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- GOALS OF AIM
- AMERICA WAS ALREADY DISCOVERED!
- RESPECT THE TREATIES!!!
- THEIR GOALS FOCUSED ON RECLAIMING THEIR LAND RIGHTS AND PRESERVING THEIR CULTURE. We want to be recognized as the sovereign nation that we are (O'Hara, 2018)
- Slide: 4
- ROLE OF RELIGION FOR PARTICIPANTS
- CEREMONIES AND WORSHIP WERE A KEY HEALING PROCESS FOR PARTICIPANTS WHILE FACING THESE STRUGGLES Connecting to traditions gives us the strength to face the challenges (Langslois, 2018)
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- CONCLUSION
- GIVE IT BACK!
- GIVE THEM THEIR LAND!
- HEAR OUR VOICES!
- THROUGH UNITY AND THE SPREAD OF AWARENESS, MANY CAME TO SUPPORT THE CAUSE, AND BRING NATIONAL ATTENTION TO THE NATIVE AMERICANS' GOALS. THEY WERE FINALLY HEARD.