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Tribal Tribune
March 14, 2018
Nespelem – Before he passed away, American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks declared a mission for his final walk across the country – a three-year journey to bring attention to drug-related deaths and domestic violence in Indian Country. The journey dubbed the Longest Walk 5, and which isÃâà...
Northern Nevada Business Weekly
March 7, 2018
Reno-based Dennis Banks Construction Co. was tabbed as general contractor for the project. Ault had become familiar with company founder and co-owner Dennis Banks — who was positioning itself as a diversified general contractor — when Ault was in the market for a new single-family home. He wasÃâà...
New York Times
December 28, 2017
Dennis Banks in 1973, in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Credit Bettman/Getty Images. Dennis Banks, whose Ojibwa (Chippewa) ancestors' names were not registered on a ship's manifest, was looking to put down roots. Born on a reservation in Minnesota, Banks wasÃâà...
San Francisco Bay View
November 26, 2017
In the late 1960s and early '70s, two names emerged from the Native American and Indigenous community that stood for resistance to white repression and assaults on Native life: Russell Means and Dennis Banks. They were men who lived, at times, in urban America, and experienced its impoverishmentÃâà...
Red Dirt Report
November 19, 2017
Dennis Banks. OKMULGEE, Okla. — On October 29th of this year, Dennis Banks, one of the founders of the American Indian Movement and a hero of the Red Power movement, walked on to the next world after fighting a bout with pneumonia following heart surgery. A role model to Indigenous activists andÃâà...
Consortium News
November 4, 2017
Native American activist Dennis Banks, who died Oct. 29 at 80, leaves behind a legacy that includes a reenergized movement that reminded America of its original ... Noted civil rights activist Dennis J. Banks, who co-founded the American Indian Movement and championed indigenous rights in the face ofÃâà...
The Times
November 3, 2017
With his rugged features, dark eyes and long black plaited hair, Dennis Banks looked every inch the Native American chief. He acted like one too. On February 27, 1973, when the atmosphere was already tense at Wounded Knee, a settlement on his reservation in South Dakota, he decided it was time toÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 1, 2017
As people around the world sent condolences, hundreds filed into the American Indian Center to say their final goodbye to Dennis Banks, who died Sunday from complications of open heart surgery. He was 80. He'll be laid to rest in a buffalo robe Saturday on northern Minnesota's Leech Lake Reservation,Ãâà...
NPR
October 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 Facebook, and confirmed by his family in a statement to The Associated Press. Banks was Ojibwe andÃâà...
New York Times
October 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 history of injustices against its indigenous peoples, died on Sunday night at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
