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Members of the American Indian Movement

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The list Members of the American Indian Movement includes Russell Means, John Trudell, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman, Richard Ray Whitman and Dennis Banks. The list consists of 39 members.

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    Russell Means

    Oglala Sioux activist for the rights of Native American people
    Russell Means
    Overview: Russell Charles Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, writer and musician. He became a p ...
    Date of birth: 10 November 1939
    Date of death: 22 October 2012
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    John Trudell

    Native American activist, author, and poet (1946–2015)
    John Trudell
    Overview: John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover ...
    Date of birth: 15 February 1946
    Date of death: 8 December 2015
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Sacheen Littlefeather

    American, Activist
    Sacheen Littlefeather
    Overview: Maria Louise Cruz (November 14, 1946 – October 2, 2022), better known as Sacheen Littlefeather, was an American actress, model, and activist for Native American civil rights who after her death was accused ...
    Date of birth: 30 January 1947
    Date of death: 2 October 2022
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Dennis Banks

    Indigenous activist
    Dennis Banks
    Overview: Dennis Banks (Ojibwe, April 12, 1937 – October 29, 2017) was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in Minneapolis ...
    Date of birth: 12 April 1937
    Date of death: 29 October 2017
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

    Native American entertainer
    Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
    Overview: Floyd Westerman, also known as Kanghi Duta ("Red Crow" in Dakota) (August 17, 1936 – December 13, 2007), was a Dakota Sioux musician, political activist, and actor. After establishing a career as a country ...
    Date of birth: 17 August 1936
    Date of death: 13 December 2007
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Richard Ray Whitman

    Contemporary Yuchi-Muscogee Creek visual artist, videographer, poet, and actor
    Richard Ray Whitman
    Overview: Richard Ray Whitman (born 1949) is a Yuchi-Muscogee Creek multidisciplinary visual artist, poet, and actor. He is enrolled in the Muscogee Creek Nation and lives in Oklahoma.
    Date of birth: 14 May 1949
    Age: 75
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Anna Mae Aquash

    Native American Activist
    Anna Mae Aquash
    Overview: Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and ...
    Date of birth: 27 March 1945
    Date of death: December 1975
    Age: 30 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Ward Churchill

    Political activist
    Ward Churchill
    Overview: Ward LeRoy Churchill (born 1947) is an American author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007. The primary focus of his ...
    Date of birth: 2 October 1947
    Age: 77
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Leonard Peltier

    American Indian activist
    Leonard Peltier
    Overview: Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is an American activist and convicted murderer. An activist for Native American civil rights and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, he joined ...
    Date of birth: 12 September 1944
    Age: 80
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Overview: Sundance is an American Indian civil rights activist. He is perhaps best known for being one of several prominent American Indians to spearhead the movement against the use of Native American imagery as ...
    Occupation: Activist
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    Arlo Looking Cloud

    Former Native American activist
    Overview: Arlo Looking Cloud (born Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud; March 25, 1954) is a former Native American activist. He is perhaps best known for his involvement with the murder of fellow American Indian Movement ...
    Date of birth: 25 March 1954
    Age: 70
    Occupation: Activist
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    Overview: Lorelei DeCora Means, born Lorelei De Cora, was a Native American nurse and civil rights activist. She is best known for her role in the second siege in the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    Carter Camp

    American activist
    Carter Camp
    Overview: Carter Camp (August 18, 1941, Pawnee, Oklahoma – December 27, 2013, White Eagle, Oklahoma) (Ponca) was an American Indian Movement activist. Camp played a leading role in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties ...
    Date of birth: 18 August 1941
    Date of death: 27 December 2013
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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    Robert Robideau

    American activist
    Robert Robideau
    Overview: Robert Eugene Robideau (November 11, 1946 – February 17, 2009) was an American Indian activist who was acquitted in the 1975 shooting deaths of two FBI agents in South Dakota.
    Date of birth: 11 November 1946
    Date of death: 17 February 2009
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
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    Hank Adams

    Activist
    Overview: Henry Lyle "Hank" Adams (1943 – 21 December 2020), Sioux-Assiniboine) was a Native American rights activist who was based in Washington state for much of his life. His activities took him to Washington ...
    Date of birth: 16 May 1943
    Date of death: 21 December 2020
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Vernon Bellecourt

    American activist
    Vernon Bellecourt
    Overview: Vernon Bellecourt (WaBun-Inini) (October 17, 1931 – October 13, 2007) was a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe (located in Minnesota), a Native American rights activist, and a leader in the American ...
    Date of birth: 17 October 1931
    Date of death: 13 October 2007
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Clyde Bellecourt

    White Earth Ojibwe activist
    Overview: Clyde Howard Bellecourt (May 8, 1936 – January 11, 2022) was a civil rights organizer noted for co-founding the American Indian Movement (AIM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968 with Dennis Banks, Eddie ...
    Date of birth: 8 May 1936
    Date of death: 11 January 2022
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Reuben Snake

    Ho-Chunk activist, educator
    Overview: Reuben Alvis Snake, Jr. (1937–1993) was an American Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) activist, educator, spiritual leader, and tribal leader. He served as a leader within the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the ...
    Date of birth: 1937
    Date of death: 1993
    Age: 55 (age at death)
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    Overview: A member of Standing Rock in North and South Dakota, Phyllis Young has been an American Indian rights activist (Lakota/Dakota) for more than 40 years. She is most widely known for her leadership role in ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Debra White Plume

    Native American activist
    Overview: Debra White Plume (Lakota: Wioweya Najin Win, August 20, 1954 – November 10, 2020) was a Lakota political activist and water protector. She fought to protect the traditional Oglala Lakota way of ...
    Date of birth: 20 August 1954
    Date of death: 10 November 2020
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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