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CLYDE BELLECOURT
By Pualilia Dudoit
US History
April 1, 2017
Leadership Project Presentation
Demographics
Clyde ¨Neegonwewaywedun¨ Bellecourt
May 8, 1936 White Earth Reservation,Minnesota
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Name:
Birth:
Age:
Mother:
Father:
Place of Upbringing:
Ethnicity:
Angeline Bellecourt
Charles Bellecourt
White Earth Reservation, Minnesota
Native American
Tribe:
Ojibwe Annishinabe
White Earth Reservation, Minnesota
Reasons for choosing my leader
- The reason for my selection is because he is a notable figure that represents his community and his Native American culture.
- Stands up for what he believes
- He believes that the Natives deserve better treatment than what they receive, and that something should be done about it.
- Takes initiative, doesn't just sit and complain.
Qualities
Personal Qualities
- Indian Parochial Boarding school
- Ran away at 11 years old
Adjective 1. insisting or demanding
something; not allowing refusal
personal & professional
Father influence - taught how to fish and hunt
-left and went to WWI , returned traumatized
Insistent
Correctional Systems
- he shows that by expressing and demanding his opinion to represent the majority of the Native American population.
- demanded order alongside his fellow activist acquaintances to have equal rights and respect.
“I call it confrontation politics,” he said. “Go knock on the doors of the police department, city council, the mayor’s office or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. If they don’t hear, you knock a little louder, and if they still don’t hear you, you got to push the damn door down.
- Red Wing state training school
Education
adjective
continuing firmly or obstinately in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.
Professional
Bio-poem
and
Correctional systems
Mother - In boarding school, Bellecourt's mother was punished severely for speaking her own language
Early Influences
Persistent
- Minnesota Department of Correction St. Cloud
- doesn't care if he is not liked or hated
- Continues strong, and firm
Activist
- Minnesota's Stillwater Prison
whenever it rained, his mother's knees would swell. They would tie sacks of marbles on her knees and forced her to scrub floors with a toothbrush on her knees"
- He will do whatever
Adjective
refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind.
- AIM creator [American Indian Movement]
Along with Eddie Benton Banai and Dennis Banks
Adamant
Persuaded by anger and hatred to those who disrespected his family and his Native American culture
- Doesn't let the government or law-enforces influences his mindset
help American Indians in urban ghettos who had been displaced by government, forcing them from the reservations.
- he was denied the option to get out and go to engineering school
Major Challenges
- Became an engineer, no matter what the prisons told him
Major Accomplishments
- Autobiography Thunder Before The Storm
AIM accomplishments
- Tranfered schools because of poor quality and bullying.
- Creation of AIM American Indian Movement
- Native Americans Take Over Bureau of Indian Affairs: 1972
AIM
- occupation (1969–71) of Alcatraz Island,
- inability to practice his culture and language as a child.
- takeover (1973) of a site at Wounded Knee
Mahalo Nui Loa
American Indian Movement
- recognized an infamous 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women and children.
- a Case Study of Ranginui by Emma Scobie-Jennings quotes,
“The cost of his early schooling was that he soon lost the ability to speak Māori and looking back, feels as though he lost much of his Māori identity at this point.”.
The American Indian Movement was created to create change for Indian people. On July 28, 1968, about 120 people, mostly women and children, came together. They called themselves the Concerned American Indian Coalition.
He mau ninau?
- Protest against use of Native American images for mascots at the Washington Redskins versus
- 143,000 acres of land taken from Whakatohea by the crown
- blasted Sanders and other presidential candidates for not saying “a single word about Native people.”
¨ Dear Crown¨
- Treaty of Waitangi
Major Challenges
Picture Bibliography
Bibliography
- "At that time, parochial schools taught nothing about Indian history and culture. There was nothing about the amount of food and medicine contributed by Indian people or how in South America, Indian people performed brain surgery while Europeans were still living in caves. There was no study of the advanced Indian aqueducts or the great pyramids, or of how Benjamin Franklin stayed with the Iroquois and took the knowledge of the Iroquois Confederacy to create the United States confederacy."
"Clyde Bellecourt Siblings - Google Search". Google.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 2 Apr. 2017.
http://www.startribune.com/indian-activist-clyde-bellecourt-arrested-after-protest/184762151/
resources
- Early prison life made him have a case of depression and contemplated suicide.
"Standing Up And Demanding Change". ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact. N. p., 2016. Web. 2 Apr. 2017.
https://asunow.asu.edu/20160418-solutions-clyde-bellecourt-lecture-native-rights
"Red Wing Training School, 1079 Highway 292, Red Wing, Minnesota - Placeography". Placeography.org. N. p., 2017. Web. 2 Feb. 2017.http://www.placeography.org/index.php/Red_Wing_Training_School,_1079_Highway_292,_Red_Wing,_Minnesota
"Minnesota Department Of Corrections :: St. Cloud". Doc.state.mn.us. N. p., 2017. Web. 2 Feb. 2017.http://www.doc.state.mn.us/pages/index.php/facilities/adult-facilities/st-cloud/
"Gentle Rage: Clyde Bellecourt Remembers The Birth Of The American Indian Movement | The Narcosphere". Narcosphere.narconews.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 18 Jan. 2017.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2008/08/gentle-rage-clyde-bellecourt-remembers-birth-american-indian-movement
- In 1985, Clyde Bellecourt was caught selling LSD to an undercover cop, and in the 1990s, he and his brother Vernon Bellecourt were expelled from the movement for drug sales
"Clyde Bellecourt Biography - Life, Family, Children, History, School, Book, Information, Born, House". Notablebiographies.com. N. p., 2016. Web. 15 Dec. 2016.
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ba-Be/Bellecourt-Clyde.html
"Clyde Bellecourt Facts". Biography.yourdictionary.com. N. p., 2016. Web. 15 Dec. 2016.
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/clyde-bellecourt
"AIM Leader Clyde Bellecourt Tells His Story In New Book". Star Tribune. N. p., 2017. Web. 11 Jan. 2017.www.startribune.com/aim-leader-clyde-bellecourt-tells-his-story-in-new-book/397682921/
“I’ve made mistakes in my life, and this was one of the worst,”
"Clyde Bellecourt Biography - Life, Family, Children, History, School, Book, Information, Born, House". Notablebiographies.com. N. p., 2016. Web. 15 Dec. 2016.
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ba-Be/Bellecourt-Clyde.html
"Clyde Bellecourt Facts". Biography.yourdictionary.com. N. p., 2016. Web. 15 Dec. 2016.
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/clyde-bellecourt
"AIM Leader Clyde Bellecourt Tells His Story In New Book". Star Tribune. N. p., 2017. Web. 11 Jan. 2017.www.startribune.com/aim-leader-clyde-bellecourt-tells-his-story-in-new-book/397682921/
Education
"Gentle Rage: Clyde Bellecourt Remembers The Birth Of The American Indian Movement | The Narcosphere". Narcosphere.narconews.com. N. p., 2016. Web. 15 Dec. 2016.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2008/08/gentle-rage-clyde-bellecourt-remembers-birth-american-indian-movemen
"Review Of Bellecourt Book: AIM Founder Tells His Story". Twincities.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 2 Feb. 2017. http://www.twincities.com/2016/11/02/clyde-use/