JULY 29:

July 29, 1968:  The American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) is founded.

1633 Quebec Quebec Holding of the great Franco-Huron Council.

1609 Ticonderoga New York Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 meets a large war party of Iroquois heading north near Ticonderoga.
 

BACKGROUND:

"Because of the slum housing conditions; the highest unemployment rate in the whole of this country; police brutality against our elders, women, and children; Native Warriors came together from the streets, prisons, jails and the urban ghettos of Minneapolis to form the American Indian Movement. They were tired of begging for welfare, tired of being scapegoats in America and decided to start building on the strengths of our own people; decided to build our own schools; our own job training programs; and our own destiny. That was our motivation to begin. That beginning is now being called 'the Era of Indian Power'."  (Dennis Banks, 1992)
 

From:  http://members.aol.com/Nowacumig/backgrnd.html
 

From Leonard Peltier:
WHAT IS AIM?
"AIM is not an organization. AIM, as its name clearly says, is a movement. Within that movement organizations come and go. No one person or special group of people runs AIM. Don't confuse AIM with any individual or individuals who march under its banner - however worthy or unworthy they may be. AIM is the people. AIM will be there when every one of us living today is gone. AIM will raise new leaders in every generation. Crazy Horse belonged to AIM. Sitting Bull belonged to AIM. They belong to us still, and we belong to them. They're with us now.