American Indian Oral History: Dennis Banks to Sam Moves Camp, Interview

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American Indian Oral History: Dennis Banks to Sam Moves Camp, Interview

1976

https://archives.nebraska.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/40464

This is a recorded message from Dennis Banks for Sam Moves Camp and was made by Banks late in 1976. Banks talked about his earlier years and his lack of knowledge regarding Native American religion and the Sun Dance. Banks also described the first Sun Dance he organized. He restarted the Sun Dances for Native American people which celebrates religion, tradition, and respect. Banks ended with a few words for Sam Moves Camp and a pledge to always be a Sun Dancer.

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University of Nebraska Omaha, Dr C C & Mabel L Criss Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658619

University of Nebraska Omaha, Dr C C & Mabel L Criss Library

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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 ...