DENNIS BANKS
Dennis Banks was born on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. In
1968 he founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) 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 rice. Banks also travels
the world lecturing, and providing drug and alcohol counseling. He established
the first spiritual run from Avis to Los Angeles. He earned an Associates of
Arts degree at Davis University and taught at DQ University, where he became the
first American Indian Chancellor.
Books by Dennis J. Banks:
Banks, Dennis J.. The opening statements of Russell Means and Dennis Banks in
U.S. vs Russell Means and U.S. vs Dennis Banks
St. Paul, MN : Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee, 1974.
Dennis Banks was born on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. In
1968 he founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) 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 rice. Banks also travels
the world lecturing, and providing drug and alcohol counseling. He established
the first spiritual run from Avis to Los Angeles. He earned an Associates of
Arts degree at Davis University and taught at DQ University, where he became the
first American Indian Chancellor.
Books by Dennis J. Banks:
Banks, Dennis J.. The opening statements of Russell Means and Dennis Banks in
U.S. vs Russell Means and U.S. vs Dennis Banks
St. Paul, MN : Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee, 1974.