Dennis Banks

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-04-12 (70 years old)

Deathday

2007-10-29

Place of Birth

Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota, USA

Dennis Banks

Biography

Dennis Banks (1937-2007) was an Ojibwe Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which he co-founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1968 to represent urban Indians.

Acting

1992

1988

War Party

as Ben Crowkiller

2010

A Good Day to Die

as Self - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa

1992

Incident at Oglala

as Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement

2011

1992

1985

Broken Rainbow

as Self - American Indian Movement

1991

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

as Self - American Indian Movement

2008

Older Than America

as Pete Goodfeather

1996

All Power to the People!

as Self (archive footage)

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