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  1. May 10, 2024 · Dennis Banks was an Ojibwe activist and a founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a prominent Native rights organization. Banks led high-profile protests that increased awareness about the U.S. government’s long history of mistreatment of Native peoples. Banks was born on the Leech Lake.

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    In 1968, Banks co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in Minneapolis. AIM sought to ensure and to protect the civil rights of Native Americans living in urban areas and to protest the treatment of Native Americans and the nation's history of injustices against its indiginoeous peoples.

  3. Oct 30, 2017 · Dennis Banks, a leader of the American Indian Movement, burns a government proposal that would have let the AIM occupiers leave Wounded Knee in 1973. The Native American protesters then put...

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  5. Oct 31, 2022 · Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt, two Ojibwa men who had met in prison, founded AIM in 1968 in Minneapolis, along with Bellecourt’s brother Vernon and Banks’ friend George Mitchell....

  6. May 21, 2018 · Dennis Banks cofounded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968 to fight for Native American rights and culture. He led several protests and occupations, including the famous standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973, and faced federal persecution and imprisonment.

  7. 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...

  8. 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 nation’s...

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