Dennis Banks

Activist

United States

1937 - 2017

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That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
Dennis Banks
Every man should see the birth of his children.
Dennis Banks
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
Dennis Banks
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
Dennis Banks
I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.
Dennis Banks
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
Dennis Banks