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- Dennis Banks (April 12, 1937, in Ojibwe – October 29, 2017) was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968 to represent urban Indians. He was a pre-eminent spokesman for Native Americans.
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Dennis Banks (April 12, 1937, in Ojibwe – October 29, 2017) was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement , which he co-founded in Minneapolis , Minnesota in 1968 to represent urban Indians.
Oct 30, 2017 · Dennis J. Banks, the militant Chippewa who founded the American Indian Movement in 1968 and led often-violent insurrections to protest the treatment of Native Americans and the...
Oct 30, 2017 · Dennis Banks, a Native American activist who co-founded the American Indian Movement and helped lead the 1973 armed occupation of Wounded Knee, has died at 80. His death was announced on...
- Camila Domonoske
Correspondent. October 31, 2017. American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks Jim West / Alamy Stock Photo. Dennis Banks, the fiery and divisive activist who co-founded the American Indian...
Dec 28, 2017 · In 1968, after a stint in the Air Force in Japan that ended with Banks going AWOL, and two and a half years in jail on a burglary rap, he helped found the American Indian Movement (AIM) to...
Oct 31, 2017 · Dennis Banks, a founder of the American Indian Movement who helped lead demonstrations — notably the 10-week siege at Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973 — that at times descended into violence as...
Oct 31, 2017 · (Reuters) - Civil rights activist Dennis Banks, who co-founded the American Indian Movement that pushed for indigenous rights during the 1960s and '70s, died in his native Minnesota, his family...
