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Dennis Banks

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Dennis Banks

Gender: Male

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The Trail of Broken Treaties reaches Washington

📅 2 November 1972

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Oglala Lakota activists and American Indian Movement supporters began occupying Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation. They challenged local abuses and demanded that the federal government honour...

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