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Bellecourt co-founded the movement in 1968 with a small group that included her husband, Clyde Bellecourt, who died earlier this year.
An intrepid warrior, a tireless advocate for Indigenous rights, the last of the Old Guard of the American Indian Movement, a peerless paladin for the cause of Native liberation, fearless fighter confronting racism on the frontlines: Clyde Bellecourt was all of these and more.
An intrepid warrior, a tireless advocate for Indigenous rights, the last of the Old Guard of the American Indian Movement, a peerless paladin for the cause of Native liberation, fearless fighter confronting racism on the frontlines: Clyde Bellecourt was all of these and more.
Hundreds gathered to honor the life of Clyde Bellecourt, White Earth Ojibwe, in Minneapolis, Jan. 13. Bellecourt, 85, was the last living founding member of the American Indian Movement and a lifelong civil-rights activist known worldwide. (Star Tribune, Jan. 13) Bellecourt, whose Ojibwe name is Neegawnwaywidung, (the Thunder Before the…
Indian Country headlines for Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2021