 Wilson agreed with AIM members that there was serious social damage from the high rates of unemployment, suicide, and alcoholism at Pine Ridge.He also believed that the US government had illegally broken land treaties with the Sioux, but Wilson considered AIM's militancy "more as threat than a savior" for the Indian people.Wilson would later characterize AIM activists as "the only major Indian problem...bums trying to get their braids and mugs in the press."