Dennis Banks

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Alcatraz Island: Native American occupation

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The video thumbnail image shows a boarding school for Native American children in the twentieth century.

How Indigenous languages were lost

Native boarding schools tried to erase all traces of Indigenous culture.

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Dennis Banks

Dennis Banks

Dennis Banks, 1974.

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Alcatraz Island: Native American occupation

Alcatraz Island: Native American occupation

Native American activists occupying Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California,...

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1973 standoff at Wounded Knee

1973 standoff at Wounded Knee

American Indian Movement members and U.S. authorities meeting to resolve the 1973...

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