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Lakota Woman Essay
In Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog argues that in the 1970’s, the American Indian Movement used protests and militancy to improve their visibility in mainstream Anglo American society in an effort to secure sovereignty for all “full blood� American Indians in spite of generational gender, power, and financial conflicts on the reservations. When reading this book, one can see that this is indeed the case. The struggles these people underwent in their daily lives on the reservation eventually became too much, and the American Indian Movement was born. AIM, as we will see through several examples, made their case known to the people of the United States, and militancy ultimately became necessary in order to do so. “Some people loved AIM, some hated it, but nobody ignored it� (Crow Dog, 74).
AIM was the first Native American group to realize that their message would not be heard with just words. Their words had gone unheard for too long, and it was......

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