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000311321 1001_ $$aBanks, Dennis.
000311321 24510 $$aOjibwa warrior :$$bDennis Banks and the rise of the American Indian Movement /$$cDennis Banks with Richard Erdoes.
000311321 260__ $$aNorman :$$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$$cc2004.
000311321 300__ $$axii, 362 p., [58] p. of plates :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000311321 520__ $$aPublisher's description: Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe, is probably the most influential Indian leader of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the very first time and reveals an inside look at the birth of the American Indian Movement. Born in 1937 and raised by his grandparents on the Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota, Dennis Banks grew up learning traditional Ojibwa lifeways. As a young child he was torn from his home and forced to attend a government boarding school designed to assimilate Indian children into white culture. After years of being "white man-ized" in these repressive schools, Banks enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, shipping out to Japan when he was only seventeen years old. After returning to the states, Banks lived in poverty in the Indian slums of Minnesota until he was arrested for stealing groceries to feed his growing family. Although his white accomplice was freed on probation, Banks was sent to prison. There he became determined to educate himself. Hearing about the African American struggle for civil rights, he recognized that American Indians must take up a similar fight. Upon his release, Banks became a founder of AIM, the American Indian Movement, which soon inspired Indians from many tribes to join the fight for American Indian rights. Through AIM, Banks sought to confront racism with activism rooted deeply in Native religion and culture. Ojibwa Warrior relates Dennis Banks₂s inspiring life story and the story of the rise of AIM--from the 1972 "Trail of Broken Treaties" march to Washington, D.C., which ended in the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building, to the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, when Lakota Indians and AIM activists from all over the country occupied the site of the infamous 1890 massacre of three hundred Sioux men, women, and children to protest the bloodshed and corruption at the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation. Banks tells the inside story of the seventy-one day siege, his unlikely nighttime escape and interstate flight, and his eventual shootout with authorities at an FBI roadblock in Oregon. Pursued and hunted, he managed to reach California. There, authorities refused to extradite him to South Dakota, where the attorney general had declared that the best thing to do with Dennis Banks was to "put a bullet through his head." Years later, after a change in state government, Banks gave himself up to South Dakota authorities. Sentenced to two years in prison, he was paroled after serving one year to teach students Indian history at the Lone Man school at Pine Ridge. Since then, Dennis Banks has organized "Sacred Runs" for young people, teaching American Indian ways, religion, and philosophy worldwide. Now operating a successful business on the reservation, he continues the fight for Indian rights. This account is enhanced by dramatic photographs, most taken by Richard Erdoes, of key people and events from the narrative.
000311321 60010 $$aBanks, Dennis.
000311321 61020 $$aAmerican Indian Movement$$xHistory.
000311321 650_0 $$aOjibwa Indians$$vBiography.
000311321 650_0 $$aOjibwa Indians$$xCivil rights.
000311321 650_0 $$aOjibwa Indians$$xGovernment relations.
000311321 650_0 $$aCivil rights movements$$zUnited States.
000311321 651_0 $$aWounded Knee (S.D.)$$xHistory$$yIndian occupation, 1973.
000311321 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations.
000311321 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xPolitics and government.
000311321 7001_ $$aErdoes, Richard,$$d1912-2008.
000311321 85200 $$bgen$$hE99.C6$$iB258$$i2004
000311321 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy051/2003065024.html
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