Nancy Welsh ( History teacher) invited Clyde Bellecourt whose neice, Crystal Norcross, is in her class. Mr. Bellecurt spoke about  Native American people's culture as separate and distinctive from the white man's culture.

Clyde Howard Bellecourt (born May 8, 1936) is a Native American civil rights organizer noted for co-founding the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968 with Dennis Banks, Herb Powless, and Eddie Benton Banai, among others. His older brother Vernon Bellecourt has also been active. Clyde was the seventh of 12 children born to his parents (Charles and Angeline) on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.

His Ojibwe name is Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun which means "Thunder Before the Storm."

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