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YouTube: Vernon Bellecourt (1931-2007 RIP) & Bob Brown 11-23-88 Original air datThis forum post is dated 09/03/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Minnesota - Party for Socialism and Liberation
| YouTube: Vernon Bellecourt (1931-2007 RIP) & Bob Brown 11-23-88 Original air dat Vernon Bellecourt (1931-2007 RIP) & Bob Brown. Vernon Bellecourt, Indian name WaBun-Inini, (October 17, 1931 October 13, 2007)[1] was a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe (located in Minnesota), and a Native American rights activist. In the Ojibwe language his name meant "Man of Dawn."[1] [2] Bellecourt lived on the White Earth Indian Reservation until he was sixteen when his family moved to Minneapolis. When Bellecourt was nineteen he spent time in St. Cloud prison for robbing a Saint Paul tavern.[3] When Bellecourt was released he became a hairdresser and proceeded to open a series of beauty salons in Saint Paul.[3][4] In the mid 1960s he sold his business and moved his family out to near Aspen, Colorado.[4] Bellecourt was a long time leader in the American Indian Movement. His brother, Clyde Bellecourt, helped found AIM as a militant group in 1968, and Vernon soon became involved as well. He co-founded the AIM chapter in Denver, and was its first Executive Director. Bellecourt took part in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties caravan, then served as a negotiator during AIM's occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which took place followng the caravan's arrival in Washington, DC Bellecourt was present briefly during the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation in South Dakota, serving mostly as an AIM spokesman and fundraiser during the 71-day standoff with federal agents. After Wounded Knee, Bellecourt worked with the International Indian Treaty Council, which advocates on <b>...</b> |
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