American Indian Movement AIM Final Post

The American Indian Movement limits the context of the movements political agenda by constant comparison to spirituality. Spirituality being the base of the movement as defined in the AIM websites profile, this movement is proclaimed as a “spiritual movement, a religious rebirth, and rebirth of dignity and pride in people” which should be on an individualistic level yet, throughout the movements time we see a shift from individualism to collectivism. The movements timeline that claims to be for the past 500 years yet a comparison of the 60’s-70’s decade and the post 2000’s will show that the movement has completely ignored the individualistic spiritual agenda of their movement. The movement shifts to a collectivist political agenda that addresses the non-american indian audiences adoption of the american indian culture and over all social injustices through peaceful protest and demand for policy change yet no religious rebirth is occuring in the spiritual based movement.