Bellecourt demands Sanders promise to follow Indian treaties

MINNEAPOLIS -- One of the country's best-known American Indians confronted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders Friday and was not happy with what he heard.

Clyde Bellecourt, a northwestern Minnesota White Earth Indian Reservation native, co-founded the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis in 1968 and Friday at age 79 remained an advocate of Indian rights.

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