Dennis Banks at the Six Nations.

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Dennis Banks at the Six Nations.

1983

https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/sz0151

An interview with the American Indian Movement founder conducted in the Onondaga Nation in New York. He discusses seeking sanctuary from an assault and riot conviction in South Dakota, his attempted extradition by California governor George Deukmejian, his arrest at Custer, and his persecution by South Dakota governor William Janklow. Submitted by Ray Cook.

1 reel (23 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658626

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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 ...