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Dennis Banks

Co-founder of AIM and leader of the Wounded Knee occupation.

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Dennis Banks

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Born on April 12, 1937, and passing on October 29, 2017, Dennis J. Banks was an author, teacher, and activist for Native American rights.[1] Through his activism, Banks secured government concessions and drew nationwide attention to the hardships faced by Native Americans.[1]

Key facts and history

He participated in the 1969–1971 Occupation of Alcatraz.[2] In 1972, he helped organize the "Trail of Broken Treaties" caravan to Washington, D.C.[3] He earned an associate's degree from the University of California, Davis during his time in California from 1976 to 1983.[4] In 1956, during the Sunagawa Struggle, he received orders to shoot to kill protesters who were against the base.[5]

He went AWOL and subsequently received a dishonorable discharge.[5] In 1973, Banks spearheaded an AIM occupation of Wounded Knee that lasted 71 days.[6] On October 29, 2017, in Rochester, Minnesota, Banks passed away at 80 years old due to pneumonia complications after heart surgery.[2]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Dennis Banks" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McFadden, "Dennis Banks, American Indian Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 80", The New York Times, 2017-10-30 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Dennis Banks" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McFadden, Robert D., "Dennis Banks, American Indian Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 80", The New York Times, October 30, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Dennis Banks" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Banks, Dennis and Erdoes, Richard: Ojibwa Wizard: Dennis Banks And The Rise Of The American Indian Movement, p. 134.; "American Indigenous activist Dennis Banks dead at 80 CBC News", CBC, October 30, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Dennis Banks" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Dennis Banks Arrested", Akwesasne Notes, p. 15; McFadden, "Dennis Banks, American Indian Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 80 (Published 2017)", The New York Times, October 30, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Dennis Banks" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stock, "Table of Contents: Nuclear Country", www.upenn.edu, 2020; Wright, "From Tokyo to Wounded Knee: Two Afterlives of the Sunagawa Struggle", The Sixties, October 2017, p. 133–149 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Dennis Banks" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Voigt, "Reinventing the Warrior: Masculinity in the American Indian Movement, 1968-1973", University Press of Kansas, 2024, p. 165–224 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

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