Which organization was founded in 1968 to improve conditions on reservations, protect land rights and improve opportunities in education and employment for Native Americans?

• A. National Organization for Women (NOW)
• B. United Farm Workers of America (UFW)
• C. American Indian Movement (AIM)
• D. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Answer: (C)

The idea being tested is recognizing a Native American rights organization and its founding purpose. The organization founded in 1968 to improve conditions on reservations, defend land rights, and expand opportunities in education and employment for Native Americans is the American Indian Movement. It began in Minneapolis in 1968 with activists like Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt to address widespread injustices facing Native communities, promote self-determination, and bring attention to treaty rights and economic opportunities. Its approach included advocacy, public demonstrations, and direct action to highlight Native issues across reservations and urban areas, helping spur policy discussions in the years that followed. Other groups listed focus on different movements: one centers on women's rights, another on farm workers’ rights, and another on Black civil rights, not specifically on Native American lands and opportunities in the same way.