Camp played a leading role in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties that traveled to Washington, DC, where protesters took over the Department of Interior building.
Camp was also one of the organizers of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, to highlight the Lakota desire for sovereignty.
[2][3] Camp was sent away to Indian boarding school, under Federal policy intended to "Christianize" Native American children in those years.
[2][3] He lived in Los Angeles after his discharge, working as an electrician in a factory and serving as shop steward for the union.
He led the first group of AIM members as they seized the trading post in the village, cut phone lines, forced Bureau of Indian Affairs staff to leave town, and took eleven hostages.
For over twenty years Camp was an organizer and participant in the annual sun dance held in the Rosebud Indian Reservation,[1] along with Leonard Crow Dog.
He organized support against construction of the Keystone Pipeline, designed to run from the Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta to refineries in Illinois and Texas.