Over the past two years, Chippewa Dennis Banks has emerged as an angry and outspoken leader of the militant American Indian Movement. With his hair in braids, he has preached a return to traditional Indian ways, including the ancient religions and methods of education. He wants Indian tribes to abandon their white-imposed system of elections and revert to a selection of chiefs by a kind of consensus of medicine men and district leaders.
Last week, however, Dennis Banks' confrontation with the American system was scheduled to take place in a court in Custer, S. Dak. He was to appear for sentencing on...
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