Parsons, Jim
Dennis Banks, who helped found the American Indian Movement and engaged in sometimes-violent uprisings against the U.S. government, including the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973, died at age 80, his family announced Monday.
As the occupation entered its third week, life in the village settled down to an idyllic pace. Indians lounged outside and in the trading post, or built bunkers into the hills that surround Wounded Knee. But the armed personnel carriers that stared down on the embattled village provided a c...
Dennis Banksco-founded theAmerican Indian Movement (AIM)in 1968.Russell Means(left) joined the organization shortly thereafter. The two iconic Native American Indian leaders were key activists and spokespersons for the historicWounded Knee incident(1973), and theNative American Occupation of Alcatraz Is...
Terrence Malick, one of America’s most respected filmmakers, first attracted attention through Badlands (1973) a film very much in the same mold as Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Robert Altman’s Thieves like Us (1974) in that it is about a young couple going on a robbery...
The Daqneesh family, under occupation in East Aleppo, are Syrian government loyalists. Much of the blood on Omran, who was but slightly injured, was his father’s after the house was bombed, and Mohammed sustained some head wounds. Omran immediately ran into his bedroom after the strike, ...