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Status
Released
Release
2010
Runtime
1h 31m
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Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.
32 Cast Members
Dennis Banks
Self - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa
Brenda Child
Self - Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota; Ojibwa
Bob Hicks
Self - Filmmaker; Creek - Seminole
Sydney Byrd
Self - Dakota
George Mitchell
Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa
Frances Fairbanks
Self - Director, American Indian Center, Minneapolis; Ojibwa
Jay WhiteCrow
Self - AIM Member; Seneca
Lyle Rustad
Self - Co-Founder, Diversity Foundation
Clyde Bellecourt
Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa
Lehman Brightman
Self - Founder, United Native Americans; Lakota - Creek
Wilmer Mesteth
Self - Traditional Leader and Educator; Lakota
Charlie Hill
Self - Comedian; Oneida
Wes Studi
Self - Actor; Cherokee
Ken Tilsen
Self - Defense Attorney, Wounded Knee Trial
Cy Griffin
Self - Videographer
LaDonna Harris
Self - Former wife of US Senator Fred Harris; Comanche
Della Warrior
Self - C.O.O., Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation; Otoe - Missouria
Eda Gordon
Self - Defense Investigator, Wounded Knee Trial
Joann WhiteCrow
Self - AIM Member; Cherokee
Marshall McKay
Self - Tribal Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation