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Oct 22, 2012 · A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, Russell Means was perhaps the most outsized personality in the American Indian Movement, beginning with the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. He also had an ...
Oct 22, 2012 · Russell Means, a former American Indian Movement activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee, reveled in stirring up attention and appeared in several Hollywood films, has died.
Russell Means and Dennis Banks, a founder of the original American Indian Movement (AIM), participated in the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973, and the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island which lasted from November 20, 1969, until June 11, 1971, when it was ended by force by the U.S. government.
Oct 22, 2012 · Russell Means, Indian Activist And ... "He rose to national attention as a leader of the American Indian Movement in 1970 by directing a band of Indian protesters who seized the Mayflower II ship ...
Learn more about the controversial American Indian Rights activist Russell Means and his portrait in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.
Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life, in which he did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim of self-determination, such as storming Mount Rushmore, seizing Plymouth Rock, running for President in 1988, and--most notoriously--leading a 71-day ...
R ussell M eans ( W anbli O hitika) Statement to the Senate Special Committee on Indian Affairs. delivered 30 January 1989, Washington, D.C. Audio mp3 of Address. click for pdf. [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio] Hau mitakuyepi, miye malakota. Maje tahan ki ne zi tiyospaye ki le hesa woke lila wakan ...
