5/8/2023 0 Comments The damned by la banks![]() ![]() ![]() Occasionally, he tempers his militancy with just enough quick, cynical wit to make even his critics smile. He travels constantly, strident, defiant, volatile and more opinionated than ever, lecturing to whoever will listen about the assorted evils of capitalism, Marxism, the white man, and whatever new cause may have captured his fancy. ![]() He has seen himself as a global figure ever since, spokesman not only for AIM but for all oppressed, indigenous peoples of the world. Looking at the pair today, it’s hard to envision them willingly occupying even the same room for more than an hour, much less an entire village for 2 1/2 months.įor Russell Means, now 46, life took on exciting new flavor at Wounded Knee. While one now enthusiastically plots the capture of some 120 million reservation prairie dogs, the other wants to help Ronald Reagan topple the Marxist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua. But now, for the first time in 13 years, Dennis Banks and Russell Means are both back where it all began, living about 30 miles apart on the Pine Ridge reservation. ![]()
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