Dennis Banks
Birthday: 1937-04-12
Place of Birth: Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota, USA
Biography: Dennis Banks (1937-2007) was an Ojibwe Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which he co-founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1968 to represent urban Indians.
Movies
The Last of the Mohicans
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...
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War Party
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are su...
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A Good Day to Die
Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader wh...
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Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background....
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Incident at Oglala
On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, tw...
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California Indian
Nick Thomas, a Pomo Indian and a successful Los Angeles radio host, is forced back to the reservatio...
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Thunderheart
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on...
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Broken Rainbow
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona....
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Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activi...
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Older Than America
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visio...
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All Power to the People!
Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA ...
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