Ojibwa Warrior

by Banks, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780806136912
• ISBN10: 080613691X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-22
• 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	p. ix
A Night to Remember	p. 3
At the Center of the Universe	p. 12
The Yellow Bus	p. 24
Interlude	p. 32
Machiko	p. 43
We AIM Not to Please	p. 58
Crow Dog	p. 95
On the Warpath	p. 105
Yellow Thunder	p. 114
Fishing in Troubled Waters	p. 121
One Hell of a Smoke Signal	p. 126
The Town with the Gunsmoke Flavor	p. 145
A Place Called Wounded Knee	p. 157
The Siege	p. 167
A Nation Reborn	p. 181
The Stand Down	p. 196
The Waters of Justice Have Been Polluted	p. 210
The Symbionese Liberation Army	p. 228
The Informer	p. 266
Fields of Terror	p. 284
Outlawed	p. 299
Exile	p. 312
Onondaga	p. 329
Freedom	p. 338
Suddenly I Am an "Elder"	p. 348
Looking Back	p. 354
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