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The Center for Southwest Research, a division of the University of New
Mexico General Library is pleased to announce the opening of two American
Indian Movement collections, the Kay Cole Papers and the Robert E.
Robideau Papers.
Kay Cole Papers, 1971-1992
Kay Cole was the founder of the Dennis Banks Defense Committee, an
organization that worked to gather support for and educate people about Dennis
Banks, American Indian activist and co-founder of the American Indian Movement
(AIM).
The collection contains 8 cubic feet of material, including the files,
correspondence, and records of the Dennis Banks Defense Committee.
Documentation of Banks' personal, professional, and legal activities
includes a gamut of materials associated with Wounded Knee, Banks'
extradition from California, his stint in prison, the Sacred Runs,
Deganawidah Quetzacoatl University, and the First American
Indian International Tribunal. The collection also contains a wealth of
information about American Indian issues such as the struggle for land
rights, religious and spiritual freedom, criminal justice, and against
discrimination.
Robert E. Robideau Papers, 1975-1994
Robert E. Robideau is a prominent American Indian Movement (AIM)
activist. In 1975 he was accused, along with Darell Butler and his
cousin, Leonard Peltier, of killing two Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents at Oglala. In 1976 Robideau and Butler were acquitted; Peltier
was convicted. Since his acquittal, Robert Robideau has worked to free
Leonard Peltier. He has served twice as the director of the
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee and continues to lecture to groups of people
around the world about Peltier's plight.
The collection contains twenty-nine cubic feet of American Indian Movement
material, including reports, court documents, Freedom of Information Act
releases, FBI files on AIM and Leonard Peltier, newspaper clippings,
correspondence, flyers, handwritten notes, publications, and research
pertaining to Robideau's life-long work as an AIM activist. Also
contained in this collection are the only known recorded audio-cassette
tapes of the Cedar Rapids Robideau/Butler murder trial of 1976.
Contact: Beth Silbergleit
(505) 277-0060 or e-mail bsil@unm.edu