Dennis Banks

Born April 1937

A Native American who was a teacher, lecturer, activist, and author.  He is an Anishinabe, Ojibwa.  Banks was born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota and co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968.  He established the movement to protect the American Indians' traditional ways of life and to engage in legal cases to protect the treaty rights of Native; such as, hunting, fishing, trapping, and wild riceing.

 - "BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF DENNIS BANKS." Nowa Cumig Institute. American Indian Movement, n.d. Web.