Tune in this Sunday, November 5th, 2017 and listen to an older interview with Dennis Banks and a couple of friends some of the voices you might recognize. It was exciting and fun to have this time with Dennis. We raise our hands up to you for all you have done. Prayers for your journey and prayers to your family!
Tune in this Sunday, November 5th, 2017 and listen to an older interview with Dennis Banks and a couple of friends some of the voices you might recognize. It was exciting and fun to have this time with Dennis. We raise our hands up to you for all you have done. Prayers for your journey and prayers to your family!
Tune in this Sunday, November 5th, 2017 and listen to an older interview with Dennis Banks and a couple of friends some of the voices you might recognize. It was exciting and fun to have this time with Dennis. We raise our hands up to you for all you have done. Prayers for your journey and prayers to your family!
Tune in this Sunday, November 5th, 2017 and listen to an older interview with Dennis Banks and a couple of friends some of the voices you might recognize. It was exciting and fun to have this time with Dennis. We raise our hands up to you for all you have done. Prayers for your journey and prayers to your family!
Dennis Banks is a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist, and author. He is an Anishinabe, Ojibwa, born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. In 1968 he co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM), and establishing it to protect the traditional ways of Indian people and to engage in legal cases protecting treaty rights of Natives-such as hunting and fishing, trapping, wild riceing.
Banks earned an Associates of Arts degree at Davis University and taught at Deganawida Quetzecoatl (DQ) University (an all Indian-controlled institution), where he became the first American Indian chancellor.
In 1994, Banks led the four-month Walk for Justice (WFJ) from Alcatraz Island in San Francisco to Washington, DC. The purpose was to bring public awareness to current Native issues. Banks agreed to head the “Bring Peltier Home” campaign in 1996 bringing Native Americans and other supporters together in a national drive for executive clemency for political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
He also had roles in the movies War Party, The Last of the Mohicans, and Thunderheart. A musical tape “Still Strong” featuring Banks’ original work as well as traditional Native American songs was completed in’93 and a musical video with the same name was released in’95.
Source: American Indian Movement
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF DENNIS BANKS
Dennis Banks is a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist, and author. He is an Anishinabe, Ojibwa, born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. In 1968 he co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM), and establishing it to protect the traditional ways of Indian people and to engage in legal cases protecting treaty rights of Natives-such as hunting and fishing, trapping, wild riceing.
Banks earned an Associates of Arts degree at Davis University and taught at Deganawida Quetzecoatl (DQ) University (an all Indian-controlled institution), where he became the first American Indian chancellor.
In 1994, Banks led the four-month Walk for Justice (WFJ) from Alcatraz Island in San Francisco to Washington, DC. The purpose was to bring public awareness to current Native issues. Banks agreed to head the “Bring Peltier Home” campaign in 1996 bringing Native Americans and other supporters together in a national drive for executive clemency for political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
He also had roles in the movies War Party, The Last of the Mohicans, and Thunderheart. A musical tape “Still Strong” featuring Banks’ original work as well as traditional Native American songs was completed in’93 and a musical video with the same name was released in’95.
Source: American Indian Movement
http://www.aimovement.org/iitc/index.html#BANKS
http://www.dennisbanks.org/index.php/biography-short
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