Ojibwa Warrior

by Banks, Dennis; Erdoes, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780806135809
• ISBN10: 0806135808
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe, is probably the most influential Indian leader of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the very first time and traces the rise of the American Indian Movement. Born in 1937 and raised by his grandparents on the Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota, Dennis Banks grew up learning traditional Ojibwa lifeways. As a young child he was torn from his home and forced to attend a government boarding school designed to assimilate Indian children into white culture. After years of being "white man-ized" in these repressive schools, Banks enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, shipping out to Japan when he was only seventeen years old.

Author Biography

Dennis Banks has been an activist, counselor, teacher, and consultant on American Indian rights. He now owns a natural foods company in Minnesota Richard Erdoes, Dennis's friend for more than thirty years, has written many books on American Indians. His book Lakota Woman won an American Book Award and was made into a film for television. An award-winning photographer and illustrator, he participated in many of the marches and events that brought AIM to worldwide attention

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
A Night to Remember	3	(9)
At the Center of the Universe	12	(12)
The Yellow Bus	24	(8)
Interlude	32	(11)
Machiko	43	(15)
We AIM Not to Please	58	(37)
Crow Dog	95	(10)
On the Warpath	105	(9)
Yellow Thunder	114	(7)
Fishing in Troubled Waters	121	(5)
One Hell of a Smoke Signal	126	(19)
The Town with the Gunsmoke Flavor	145	(12)
A Place Called Wounded Knee	157	(10)
The Siege	167	(14)
A Nation Reborn	181	(15)
The Stand Down	196	(14)
The Waters of Justice Have Been Polluted	210	(18)
The Symbionese Liberation Army	228	(38)
The Informer	266	(18)
Fields of Terror	284	(15)
Outlawed	299	(13)
Exile	312	(17)
Onondaga	329	(9)
Freedom	338	(10)
Suddenly I Am an ``Elder''	348	(6)
Looking Back	354