Elder Dennis Banks: Survival On Mother Earth & .

This is a combination of video clips from the early 1970’s.., about Mother Earth.. & The American Indian Movement (.).., with Elder Dennis Banks speaking. This also helps, in a small way.., to better understand what The American Indian Movement (.) was “really“ all about.., because as with many news stories.., the “truth“ about the intentions of . have been sadly misrepresented, by much of the media...(imo). --------- The Wounded Knee incident began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Wilson stayed in office and in 1974 was re-elected amid charges of intimidation, voter fraud, and other abuses. The rate of violence climbed on the reservation as conflict opened between political factions in the following three years; residents accused Wilson’s private militi