Minnesotan/Ojibwe Icon Dennis Banks dead at age 80 (authority, Indians)

[Ghengis]

Lake Banks sounds a whole lot better than Lake Calhoun

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/o...anks-dead.html

^To admirers, Mr. Banks was a broad-chested champion of native pride. With dark, piercing eyes, high cheekbones, a jutting chin and long raven hair, he was a paladin who defied authority and, in an era crowded with civil rights protests, spoke for the nation’s oldest minority.

To his critics, including many American Indians, Mr. Banks was a self-promoter, grabbing headlines and becoming a darling of politically liberal Hollywood stars like Jane Fonda and Marlon Brando. His severest detractors, including law-enforcement officials, said he let followers risk injury and arrest while he jumped bail to avoid a long prison sentence and did not surrender for nearly a decade.