Russell Means Radio Interview (1992)

an effective parent. In this interview conducted at the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council offices in Denver, Russell Means speaks candidly about his past and his plans for the future. He begins by describing how he became involved with the American Indian Movement in 1969 while he was an accountant for the Cleveland Economic Council. I flew up in the morning to Cleveland to Detroit, and there I saw the American Indian Movement. By about a dozen people came, they were well-prepared, they had a plan of action, and a proposal on how to, it was a list of challenges to the churches it was called, challenges to the churches. Now I just watched and watched them in action. They had pamphlets explaining who they were and why, and it was something so I ended up

staying the whole convention for a week, and I kept calling back almost daily to the job saying I got to stay another day about a work here. So I take that time. I finally, when I flew back to Cleveland on the plane, I wrote my resignation up, and I've been able to ever since. You wrote your resignation and went to work full-time for Aimeon. Well, I was full-time for the Cleveland American Indian Center, but also on the side, I established the first chapter of the American Indian Movement, and then I helped fund the National American Indian Movement.

Is there any protest that you've been involved with as an aim militant that you feel as though it was the most effective, they all are, can't pick one out. We always win, it's becoming redundant, because we're right, and when you're on the side of right, nothing stops it. Freedom is not just endemic to the American Indian Movement, it's worldwide. You can't stop people yearning to be free, and you see it all over the world.