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Dennis Banks, Renowned Activist & Co-Founder Of American Indian Movement Dies At 80

3.11.17

Dennis Banks, Renowned Activist & Co-Founder Of American Indian Movement Dies At 80: Also referred to by his Ojibwe name, Nowa Cumig, the Indigenous resistance leader’s death was announced on social media and confirmed by his family to the Associated Press.

Cumig co-founded AIM in 1968 as the following year AIM members occupied Alcatraz Island to protest living conditions on U.S.-designated reservations and a host of other issues that Cumig would later describe as being “historic trauma” Indigenous people face due to contact with U.S. institutions and ethos.

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