Peggy Bellecourt has died at the age of 78. In 1968, she co-founded AIM, the American Indian Movement, with her husband Clyde Bellecourt and others. Peggy Bellecourt was born in 1944 to an Ojibwe mother and a Japanese American father. Her parents separated after Peggy’s birth to prevent her from being sent to a U.S. internment camp during World War II.