were those the thugs standing around him when he spoke in the university memorial center?
Those thugs are Ward Churchill's bodyguards - they are NOT A.I.M., and are not "Dog Soldiers", no matter what they may call themselves... There is only on A.I.M., and the "A.I.M" group in Denver that Ward Churchill fronts is as much of a fraud as Churchill is... The "Autonomous A.I.M" groups are NOT the American Indian Movement - they are the result of a split some time back, with Russell Means and Ward Churchill going off on their own and forming the "Autonomous AIM Chapters" or some such nonsense...
No, those thugs are merely thugs. Period. They aren't fit to shine a real Dog Soldiers' (Cheyenne warrior cociety of old) shoes... if Dog Soldiers wore shoes, that is...
I don't know where Snapple is getting this crap, but as someone who has relatives in A.I.M., I can say with all honesty that the only "Dog Soldiers" were the Cheyenne warrior society, and a fabricated F.B.I. "group" back in the 70s...