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The American Indian Chicago Conference (AICC) was an influential, week-long conclave of 460 American Indians from 90 tribes from June 13 to June 20, 1961.
The American Indian Center (AIC) of Chicago is the oldest urban American Indian center in the United States. [1] It provides social services, youth and senior programs, cultural learning, and meeting opportunities for Native American peoples. For many years, it was located Uptown and is now in the Albany Park, Chicago community area. [2] [3]
A member of the Ho-Chunk nation, LaMere moved to Chicago in 1937 and became well-respected leader in Chicago's American Indian community. [2] In the early 1950s, Kurt Dreifus of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Chicago convened a meeting of concerned “businessmen, university professors, welfare agency officers, clergymen, etc.” as a Citizens Advisory Board to the BIA.
Greenwood represented Illinois Indians at the National Convention of American Indians in 1953 and helped influence national policies about American Indians as the Chairman of Ways and Means at the American Indian Chicago Conference in June, 1961. [1] [2] His focus was "furthering the cause of Native American rights."
He was instrumental in drafting the "Declaration of Indian Purpose" for the 1961 American Indian Chicago Conference. McNickle was appointed as an associate professor in 1966 to what is now the University of Regina. [11] In 1972, McNickle helped create the Center for the History of the American Indian in Chicago's Newberry Library. [12]
He was the main organizer for the 1959 Darwin Centennial Celebration held at the University of Chicago. He was an organizer, along with the National Congress of American Indians, including Native American organizer Willard LaMere, [3] of the 1961 American Indian Chicago Conference.
Immigrants and American-born sons and daughters of India and its neighbors have raised lots of money, and fervor, for the Democratic presidential nominee. Kamala Harris is big news in India, too
The National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) was established in 1961 by young American Indians who were either in college or had recently graduated. [5] The NIYC is a result of youths dissenting from tribal leaders, which began during the American Indian Chicago Conference in 1961, where several young American Indians, a handful of who had become acquainted while participating in the Southwest ...