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LeoNard Peltier was part of AIM and was not the founder of the American Indian Movement. The name of the AIM (American Indian Movement) was originally given to the movement back in 1968 by its original founding Father Dennis Banks, as he sitting in a jail cell on a wrongful arrest charge due to fighting for civil rights of the American Indian people back in 1968. Please Read the book "OJIBWA WARRIOR Dennis Banks the Rise of the American Indian Movement" By Dennis Band With Richard Erdoes and also see the DVD educational movie, It's a Good Day to Die" by Dennis Banks.

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