Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement PDF
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V* V^ V^ P £7A^ *V* £7AX:^ J7A\^ J7AXS >\ "swy/T^A^ of the Tsx7/^4A4 A4 A4 The Government and "5^/? War Corporate Against a^ the American Indian Movement *i\ wv/^ A# II '^xyrj REX WEYIER 4A4 K $ 16-95 MUST “A for anybody interested human in rights/’ —Publishers Weekly -Blood of the land is the shocking story of the often violent war waged by the U.S. and Canadian govern- ments and the multinational corporations against the American Indian Movement (AIM). Set in the decade of the 1970s through to the present time, the book makes several excursions into history to reveal the roots of the modern conflict. AIM was founded in 1968 by young Indian men who had been in and out of prison. They first organized on the streets of Minneapolis, helping drunk and desper- ate Indians find new meaning in their lives through identification with their Indian A heritage. powerful motivating force, unifying previously disparate Indian move- AIM ments, was targeted for extinction by the FBI as early as 1971. The ensuing battles were often bloody. Rex Weyler describes AIM and its leaders as it fights outright violence, in- filtrators, and criminal charges. Those at — AIM the forefront of Russell Means, John Trudell, Leonard Peltier, and Anna — Mae Aquash are shot, stabbed, dragged into court, framed, be—aten up in jail, driv- en underground, and as in the case of — AIM Aquash murdered. But continues to struggle for the dignity of the American Indian and the preservation of the basic values of the Indian peoples. Blood of the Land illustrates the con- nection between the FBI, the military, certain congressmen, corporate interests in both the United States and Canada, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and their com- mon goal: to control the vital and profit- able resources on Indian land. It also (continued on back fiap) 6 1 i % lOQ oQ ^ p- - - V • . . •’^T' 'O / ». » i^i kj y VvGsl ,,giMimiHmi.llll ^ , llllllllllillllilill 3 9048 01009034 2 9 r o a O C; O“ .; fc. <J vJ V/ 323.1 W WEYLER, REX BLOOD OF THE LAND 1695 Pubrc S. S. F. Library West Orar.Re Digitized by the Internet Archive 2017 with funding from in China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) https://archive.org/details/bloodoflandgOOweyl n H Blood of the Land Blood Land of the War The Government and Corporate Against the American Indian Movement by Rex Weyler EVEREST HOUSE Publishers New York SOUTH SAN FRANCiSCO PUBLIC LIBRARY LIBRARY OFCONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA! Weyler, Rex, 1947- Blood ofthe land. Bibliograhy, p. 287 Includes index. 1. American Indian Movement. 2. Indians of North — America Government relations— 1934- . I. Title. E93-'V54 1982 323.i'i97'o73 82-2349 ISBN 0-89696-134-6 AACR2 “Song for Moab, Utah” Copyright © 1982 by Winona LaDuke, reprinted by permission ofthe author Copyright © 1982 by Rex Weyler All Rights Reserved Published by Everest House, 33 West 60th Street, New York, N.Y. 10023 Published simultaneously in Canada by Beaverbooks, Don Mills, Ontario Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica Designed by Judith Lemer First Edition RRD882
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