The 1968 Exhibit: American Indians, Minnesota, and 1968

Check out this article about a new American Indian Movement Center slated to open in Minneapolis.  The American Indian Movement was founded in the city in 1968, and is featured in The 1968 Exhibit, on view at the Minnesota History Center until February 20, 2012.

And-- breaking news:  This week, we've made a new addition to the exhibit:  this vest, on loan from Indian activist Kathryn "Jody" Beaulieu, an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.   It was, she says, "designed by a friend from Alaska, painted by a Dakota, and worn by an Anishinabe equay [Ojibwe woman]," and so she calls it her "United Nations" vest.  Beaulieu wore it during the Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969; again a year later at another occupation near Davis, California; at Pitt River in northern California when Pitt River Indians were in a standoff with the local electric company; and at the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973.   

Also, go to The 1968 Exhibit website and watch "Taking AIM"-- the award-winning short film by Lucas Langworthy.