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If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.

~Dennis Banks

Topics: Drown Follow Going Man White

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I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.

~Dennis Banks

Topics: Almost Away Back Beat Bring Catch Kept Me Once Once A Week Ran Run Running Running Away School Schools Terrible Those Week

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It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.

~Dennis Banks

Topics: Between Care Change Churches Complicity Indian Like Problem Problem Solving Solving State Taking Trying Were Who

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It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.

~Dennis Banks

Topics: Almost Back Feels Great Know Like Look Now Old Our Over People Retire Say See Sit Taking Years You Young Young People I Can

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An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.

~Dennis Banks

Topics: Across America American American People Arms Awareness Had Knee Must Native Native American People Reached Really Resort Something Wounded Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: April 12th, 1932

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