Dennis Banks, a Native American leader is an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Banks is also known as Nowa Cumig; his name in the Ojibwe language means “In the Center of the Ground.”
In 1968 he co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM), and established it to protect the traditional ways of [...]
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Dennis Banks
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