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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...
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    saw at Sunagawa really changed direction in my life. Dennis Banks, A Good Day to Die Dennis Banks (Ojibwe), an American activist and co-founder of the...
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  • Herper Perennial. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-06-016861-7. Banks, Dennis (2004). Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. Norman:...
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  • were not afraid of the battle or dying in it. Native American Activist Dennis Banks quoted the phrase during a speech Custer, South Dakota in 1973 against...
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    longstanding issues of injustice related to Natives. Afterward AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted on charges related to the events, but...
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    chairman in 1972, and traditionalist members of the Lakota tribe. It was Dennis Banks who first invited Leonard Peltier to join AIM. Consequently, Peltier...
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    From Indian Country, accessed 17 July 2011 Banks, Dennis; Erdoes, Richard (2004). Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement...
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    Leventhal and tribal advocate Dennis Banks to disbar Janklow to keep him from practicing in tribal court. According to Banks, in early 1967, Eagle Deer,...
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    and more than $2 million in damage was done to the building. In 1973, Dennis Banks and Carter Camp led AIM's occupation of Wounded Knee, which became the...
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  • American Indian Movement founder Dennis Banks. The title of film comes from the phrase "a good day to die" which Banks quoted during a speech at a protest...
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    (Chuck Norris). Horse portrayed American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Dennis Banks in the 1994 film Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee. Eight years later...
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    American Indian Movement (AIM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1968 with Dennis Banks, Eddie Benton-Banai, and George Mitchell. His elder brother, Vernon Bellecourt...
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  • On her first night in South Dakota, [Dennis] Banks told her that newcomers were needed on kitchen duty. "Mr. Banks," she replied, "I didn't come here to...
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  • first met Dennis Banks. Some sources say she met Banks at 17, some sources state 16, and others state that he met her when she was 14. Dennis Banks, co-founder...
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  • Winthrop Terry Kinney as John Cameron Tracey Ellis as Alexandra Cameron Dennis Banks as Ongewasgone Pete Postlethwaite as Captain Beams Colm Meaney as Major...
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  • Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did not prosecute the case. In October 1974 Dennis Banks acted on her behalf as the tribal attorney to revive the charges, as...
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  • Accounts differed in blaming a fifteen-year-old lab assistant named Dennis Banks, or Larry Burrows, who would later be known for his photography but worked...
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    artists including Megadeth's Marty Friedman, Mickey Hart, Philip Glass, Dennis Banks, Jon Anderson of Yes and Jane Zhang, as well as appearing on four Far...
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    Elizabeth Banks. Executive producer Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber (2017) (Documentary short) Directed the "Middle School Date" segment. "Elizabeth Banks (visual...
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  • Westerman was sent to the Wahpeton Boarding School, where he first met Dennis Banks (who as an adult became a leader of the American Indian Movement). There...
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  • Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer who...
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    end their protests and stopped trying to interfere. Russell Means and Dennis Banks, the two AIM leaders mostly in charge of Wounded Knee II, were arrested...
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  • Banks is an English surname. Notable people and fictional characters with the surname include: Adrian Banks (born 1986), American basketball player Alan...
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    candidate in the 2016 presidential election, with Eugene Puryear and Dennis J. Banks as her running mates respectively. She was the PSL's presidential nominee...
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    Jonathan Ray Banks (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Chillum Heights, Maryland, Banks did theater while...
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  • album, by Japanese new age musician Kitaro and Native American activist Dennis Banks. It was released on September 11, 2012. Let Mother Earth Speak is included...
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  • Crosby - art historian and professor of art history at Yale University Dennis Banks - Native American leader Clyde Bellecourt - Native American leader Sharon...
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  • met with a delegation of Native Americans representatives, including Dennis Banks from the American Indian Movement; LaDonna Harris, president of Americans...
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    rides Freedom Ride (Australia) Included 16 participants – Louis Adams, Dennis Banks, Ernest Bromley, Joseph Felmet, George Houser, Homer A. Jack, Andrew...
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    Mother Earth Speak, a collaboration album with Native American activist Dennis Banks. From around 1983 to 1990, Kitarō was married to Yuki Taoka, daughter...
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