Clyde Bellecourt, a Native American civil rights leader who founded the influential group American Indian Movement (AIM), died Tuesday of cancer at the age of 85, his wife, Peggy Bellecourt, and Minnesota's Hennepin County medical examiner confirmed to CNN
Bellecourt co-founded AIM in 1968 to help advocate for tribal sovereignty and better housing and opportunities for Native Americans in Minnesota and across the US.He was the group's last living original founder.Former South African President Nelson Mandela is pictured in 2000 listening to Clyde Bellecourt make an appeal for the case of Leonard Peltier, whom AIM said had been wrongly imprisoned.
"A grassroots movement growsAIM began in 1968 when Native American community activists in Minneapolis called a meeting out of frustration over decades of federal Indian policy and systemic discrimination. About 200 people showed up, according to the Gale Family Library in Minnesota. Bellecourt, along with George Mitchell and Dennis Banks, would go on to lead a movement born out of"ferment and determination.
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