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Postcard depicting the American Fur Company fur trading post in 1826, at Fond du Lac, Duluth. Manufactured ca. 1940.
The American Indian Center in Minneapolis (1530 Franklin Avenue East), 1980.
Hand of an American Indian symbolically offering ear of corn to colonists. Used in The Grain That Built a Hemisphere, 1943.
American Indian Movement (AIM) protest button from Wounded Knee, 1974.
American Indian Movement (AIM) button from the AIM powwow at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, December 29, 1990.
American Indian Movement (AIM) button from the AIM powwow held at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, December 29, 1990.
American Indian Movement (AIM) button recognizing the eighty-three years between the massacre of Lakota people by the US government at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and the occupation of the same site by AIM members in 1973.
American Indian Movement (AIM) patch commemorating the eighty-third anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre in South Dakota, 1973.
Flag of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Image by Wikimedia Commons user Tripodero, January 6, 2018.
Flyer advertising an event held to celebrate the seventeenth anniversary of the founding of the American Indian Movement (AIM), 1985.