Peggy Bellecourt, a leader of the American Indian Movement for Indigenous civil rights, died March 16 after having health issues for years. She was 78.
Bellecourt co-founded the movement in 1968 with a small group that included her husband, Clyde Bellecourt, who died earlier this year. The two were married for 56 years.
"When I think back on my life with Peggy Sue Holmes," Clyde Bellecourt wrote in his 2016 autobiography dedicated to her, "it is really inseparable from the Movement. Our relation...