Does AIR Exist?

[Czarcasm]

Over on another message board I frequent that is also concerned with fighting ignorance, a gentleman has popped up with an incredible(and very insensible) challenge. The funny thing is, he claims that he is doing this as an authorized representative of AIR-the American Indian Revolution. I can’t seem to find any mention of this group via Google, so can any of you enlighten me as to what this group is about?

[Darth_Panda]

There’s this:

The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-Determination
Troy R. Johnson
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008
Johnson’s book compellingly recounts this seminal event of the American Indian revolution of the 1960s. It was not an action organized by the American Indian Movement. Instead it was led by students from San Francisco State and UC Berkeley and the Bay Area Indian community. A worthy read.

Summer Reading List: Generosity | UC Berkeley Library

So, basically, no - not any group named that with an internet presence.

[Chefguy]

I remember AIM (Russell Means), but have never heard of AIR.

[Nametag]

I found the post on the JREF message board; the guy appears to be claiming to be Curtis Faith, one or the original Turtle Traders, and a man steadily acquiring a reputation as a first-class wackaloon.

[drachillix]

@Czarcasm

The funny thing is, he claims that he is doing this as an authorized representative of AIR-the American Indian Revolution. I can’t seem to find any mention of this group via Google, so can any of you enlighten me as to what this group is about?

I’m sure their attempts to reclaim their lost territory will go much better this time. :rolleyes:

[JRDelirious]

Nothing prevents any person from announcing s/he’s founding an organization or movement and giving it any name they want. It’s a different story if they can be bothered to actually assemble an organization and publish a web-presence…