Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement Gabor Maté 0451114515

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Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement Gabor Maté 0451114515Born in 1937 and raised by his grandparents on the Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota, Dennis Banks grew up learning traditional Ojibwa lifeways. As a young child he was torn from his home and forced to attend a government boarding school designed to assimilate Indian children into white culture. After years of being "white man ized" in these repressive schools, Banks enlisted in the U. S. Air Force, shipping out to Japan when he was only seventeen