Dennis Banks

Dennis Banks, a leader of the American Indian Movement, burns a government proposal that would have let the AIM occupiers leave Wounded Knee in 1973. The Native American protesters then put the ashes into an envelope and sent it back to the government.

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Dennis Banks, Native American Activist And Wounded Knee Occupier, Dies At 80

5:44pm October 30, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Banks was a founding member of the American Indian Movement and a leader of the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973.