Dennis Banks
personal-info
known-for
Acting
gender
Male
birthday
1937-04-12
place-of-birth
Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota, USA
also-known-as
Nowa Cumig
Naawakamig
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.