American Indian Movement: Outline

Introduction: 

Attention getter- When we think of cowboys and indians we think of the old western movies where the Indians had bows and the cowboys had guns. This movement is kind of like that just jacked up on steroids and everyone ended up with guns. 

 Introduction and credibility-  Brianna Gonzales and after days of study and analyzation 

Thesis- The American Indian Movement was and still is a complex movement that began a very long time ago until made official in 1968, that began on the more violent side and ended much more peacefully. There are different aspects of this movement that we can analyze to determine whether or not this movement should be deemed successful. 

Preview- To do this we are going to be analyzing the occupancy of Alcatraz, Trail of Broken Treaties March (as well as the 20 point proposal to the government) and AIM( American Indian Movement) now. 

Body:

P1-  First we are going to look at the protest of Alcatraz, using ad analysis as well as the anti movement from the social movement theories 

•   Ad analysis: picture of protest and mention the ideograph(democracy rights freedom)                                                                
• Explain the motives of the anti movement (rejection of an institution or idea)    

TRANSITION : “This was the first time the first time this century Indians were taken seriously,” the late historian Vine Deloria Jr. told Native Peoples Magazine in 1999. Now that we have talked about Alcatraz, we are going to look at the Trail of Broken Treaties March

P2-  we are going to analyze the Trail of Broken Treaties using the 20 point proposal given to the government and connection it back to a comic frame 

• Rhetorical argument explanation of some of the quotes from the 20 point proposal  
• Explain how this fits as a comic frame (free society by creating a consciousness of the system as a system, revealing its inherent weaknesses, and preparing an aware populace to deal with them.) 

TRANSITION: After the 20 point proposal given to the government, the activeness of AIM seemed to die down.  

P3-  we are going to analyze what AIM has become today using quotes directly from their website while making the connection to Foust 

• Quotes
• Make the connection to Foust and social media, collective identities 

TRANSITION: Now that we have talk about the end(ing) stages of this movement, we can move on to some final thoughts 

Conclusion: 

Thesis- The American Indian Movement can be seen as one with many years behind it. I believe that the beginning of the movement started off in a comic frame and eventually moved to a more aggressive frame when many Indians and Americans fought at Wounded knee. Since then there have been agreements between the government as well as the Indians hence the reasons we have reservations. How well did this movement do as far as a movement? I think the way they changed within the beginning and middle stages of a movement made them more memorable but the way that it ended, being more inclusive online and making it more of a collective identity than an individualistic one it has slowly died off. 

Clincher-