Native American Community Clinic; Women of Nations Eagle Nest Shelter; and Board of American Indian OIC (Opportunities Industrialization Center), a job program to help Native Americans get full-time jobs. In 2016, Bellecourt participated in resistance to an underground oil pipeline at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Personal life and death Bellecourt lived in Minneapolis with his wife, Peggy. They had four children. He died of cancer on January 11, 2022, at the age of 85. At the time of his death, Bellecourt was the last surviving co-founder of the American Indian Movement. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz stated, "Clyde Bellecourt sparked a movement in Minneapolis that spread worldwide. His fight for justice and fairness leaves behind a powerful legacy that will continue to inspire people across our state and nation for generations to come". According to Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, Neegawnwaywidung was a "civil rights leader who fought for more than a half-century on behalf of Indigenous people in Minnesota and around the world. Indian Country benefited from Clyde Bellecourt's activism". References Further reading "Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan Moves on Washington D.C.", Akwesasne Notes 4.6 (1972): 1–6. Davis, Julie. Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 2013) Heppler, Jason A., "Framing Red Power: The American Indian Movement, the Trail of Broken Treaties, and the Politics of Media" (2009). Dissertations, Theses, & Student Research, Department of History,, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 21. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/historydiss/21 Smith, Paul C., and Robert A. Warrior. Like a Hurricane. New York: The New Press, 1996. 128–32, 242–43, 256. External links Clyde Bellecourt biography, International Indian Treaty Council and AIM Speakers Bureau 1936 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Native Americans Native American activists Members of the American Indian Movement Ojibwe people People from Minneapolis White Earth Band of Ojibwe Deaths from cancer in Minnesota Prisoners and detainees of Minnesota Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government