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Dennis J. Banks (April 12, 1937 – October 29, 2017) was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement , which he co-founded in Minneapolis , Minnesota in 1968 to represent urban Indians.
Native American protests had only recently been receiving media attention regarding their civil rights. Preceding the Wounded Knee Occupation was the Occupation of Alcatraz that started November 20, 1969, lasted for two years, and inspired more indigenous activism. [14]
In 1970, Henry Crow Dog introduced Dennis Banks, a Leech Lake Indian Reservation Ojibwe and leader of the American Indian Movement, about Lakota religion. [2] [3] Dennis Banks sought out Henry Crow Dog for this purpose after he realized that he and most of AIM had very little Native American spiritual knowledge or guidance. [4]
Clyde Howard Bellecourt (May 8, 1936 – January 11, 2022) was a Native American civil rights organizer. [2] His Ojibwe name is Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun, which means "Thunder Before the Storm". [3] He founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1968 with Dennis Banks, Eddie Benton-Banai, and George Mitchell.
A Good Day to Die is a 2010 American documentary film about American Indian Movement founder Dennis Banks. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Native American Finance has grown and become more understood by bankers, and as bankers leave one institution and go to others they take that knowledge with them. But regional banks have really ...
Some sources say she met Banks at 17, [13] some sources state 16, [2] [6] and others state that he met her when she was 14. [14] Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement and one of its leaders, 34 at the time, started having a sexual affair with Nichols when she was 15-years-old, and had their first child together when she was ...
The largest bank in the United States by assets is JPMorgan Chase & Co., the company formed in 2000 with the merger of investment banking institution J.P. Morgan and retail banking arm Chase Bank.