Clyde Howard Bellecourt (born May 8, 1936) is a White Earth Ojibwe civil rights organizer noted for co-founding the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968 with Dennis Banks, and George Mitchell.
His older brother, the late Vernon Bellecourt, was also active.
Clyde was the seventh of 12 children born to his parents (Charles and Angeline) on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.
His Ojibwe name is Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun which means "Thunder Before the Storm."