Dennis Banks, American Indian activist who helped lead Wounded Knee occupation, dies at 80
(LA Times Clippers)

Dennis Banks, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement and a leader of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, has died, his family said Monday. He was 80. Banks was one of several activists who founded the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis in 1968, and he was a leader of AIM`s armed takeover...