A Quote by Dennis Banks

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.

Dennis Banks

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Dennis Banks
American - Activist
Born: April 12, 1932

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

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

Dennis Banks

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Rush Limbaugh

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Anohni

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Charlie Kirk

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John Lewis

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Nicolas Cage

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Billy Graham

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John Boehner

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Russell Means

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