Stop Insanity: Save the Indian Mound Station Cemetery from development and grave robbers. Let the people rest in Peace In order to respect the living, one must first respect the […]
Read moreAuthor: Sheridan Murphy
With a group of concerned Indian and non-Indian students he helped found the Tiyospaye Indian Student Organization at the University of South Florida in 1985. With David Goyette he first founded theFlorida Indian Alliance in 1985 and then the Florida AIM chapter in1989. He has served as executive director of Florida AIM since its founding in 1989. Sheridan first came to action in Florida in 1986 when he lead the effort to close the display of five Timucuan peoples remains at the Crystal River State Archaeological site . He has since been active in virtually every Florida AIM effort ranging from the 1989-93 campaignto change the name of the Hernando De Soto festival to recent efforts to force FSU to remove its stereotypical mascot to the successful 1995 campaign to defend the Independent Traditional Seminole Nation. Sheridan has been active in community efforts being deeply involved in the multicultural CommUNITY campaign in the Tampa Bayarea and he currently sits on the Pinellas County School Board’s Multicultural advisory board. He has been recognized for his serviceby Brevard Community College, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Bring Peltier Home Campaign, and the National Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement among others. He was nominated as a delegate to the II and III Continental Encounters in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Esteli, Nicaragua respectively and was a 1995 nominee for the ACLU Medal of Liberty.
Help stop the Chasco Fiasco
Greetings: Florida AIM needs YOUR participation to make the 2002 protests of the Chasco Fiesta happen. This racist festival makes grotesque stereotypes and depictions of Native peoples and has occured […]
Read moreFlorida AIM Declaration of Lake Worth
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA 17th Florida AIM State Conference Declaration of Lake Worth We, the human beings gathered here in Lake Worth, FL this Labor Day weekend of two […]
Read moreHELP STOP THE CHASCO FIASCO
STOP THE RACISM STOP THE STEREOTYPES, END THE CHASCO FIASCO The age of mass marketing acceptable racial stereotypes has all but come to an end. As we move forward in […]
Read moreFLAIM files complaint re Bogus Tribe
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA 136 4th Street North Suite 308 Saint Petersburg, FL 33701 Email: AIMFL@aol.com Web Page: http://hometown.aol.com/Aimfl National Web Page http://www.aimovement.org Contact: Sheridan Murphy or Mark Madrid […]
Read moreFlorida AIM State Conference Invitations
American Indian Movement of Florida, Inc. State Conference Organizing Committee 136 4th Street N Suite 308 Saint Petersburg, FL 33701 email: FLAIM17thConference@yahoo.com INVITATION Greetings to all Indigenous Nations, respected Indigenous […]
Read moreFlorida AIM blocks Chasco Float
American Indian Movement of Florida, Inc. State Conference Organizing Committee 136 4th Street N Suite 308 Saint Petersburg, FL 33701 email: FLAIM17thConference@yahoo.com INVITATION Greetings to all Indigenous Nations, respected Indigenous […]
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