The Trail of Broken Treaties was a 1972 caravan protest, in which multiple Native American groups drove across the country to converge at Washington, D.C. to advocate for Native American civil rights. The American Indian Movement (AIM) was one of several organizations that organized and took part in the Trail of Broken Treaties. Eventually, the U.S. government agreed to look over the demands and not press charges if the activists left the BIA building, though officials dismissed the demands shortly after the protest.
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Chapter 6
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In the end a compromise was reached. The government said they could not go on negotiating during Election Week, but they would appoint two high administration officials to seriously consider our twenty demands. Our expenses to get home would be paid. Nobody would be prosecuted. Of course, our twenty points were never gone into afterward. From the practical point of view, nothing had been achieved. As usual we had bickered among ourselves. But morally it had been a great victory. We had faced White America collectively, not as individual tribes. We had stood up to the government and gone through our baptism of fire.
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Chapter 6: We AIM Not to Please
...at all. Sensing that “it was open season on Indians again,” AIM leaders planned the Trail of Broken Treaties .
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Part of the significance of the Trail of Broken Treaties was this unity across Native American tribes, as caravans—each with their own spiritual leader—from many...
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