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American Indian Movement Recordings

1973-1974

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-tape00633a

Tape recordings of two University of Wisconsin-Madison campus events concerning the American Indian Movement: a November 13, 1973, speech by AIM leader Clyde (Vernon) Bellecourt to solicit support for the defendants arrested at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and a February 3, 1974, forum held in observance of “Native American Week” which featured Wounded Knee defendant Dennis Banks, Wisconsin AIM leader Herb Powless, and Bellecourt.

4 tape recordings

eng, Latn

Wisconsin historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658611

Wisconsin historical society

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Banks, Dennis James, 1937-2017

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Dennis James Banks, also known by his Ojibwe name Nowa Cumig, was born on April 12, 1937, in his grandparents’ home on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He was raised by his grandparents, Josh and Jenny Drumbeater, until going to the Pipestone Indian Boarding School at the age of five. There, he experienced physical and emotional abuse and forgot most of the Ojibwe language because he was not allowed to speak it. He was transferred to the Wahpeton Indian School in North Dakota for ...