Portrait of Dennis Banks : heliogravure print by Michelle Vignes, 1974

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Portrait of Dennis Banks : heliogravure print by Michelle Vignes, 1974

1974

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5504639

Photographed at the convention of the American Indian Movement in Mobridge, South Dakota, summer, 1974.

1 framed print.

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Stanford university libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658617

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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 ...