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Dennis Banks is a Actor American born on 12 april 1937

Dennis Banks

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Nationality USA
Birth 12 april 1937
Death 29 october 2007 (at 70 years)

Dennis Banks (born April 12, 1937), a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist and author, is an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Banks is also known as Nowa Cumig (Naawakamig in the Double Vowel System). His name in the Ojibwe language means "In the Center of the Universe." He has been a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in 1968 with Native Americans in Minneapolis.

Usually with

Adam Beach
Adam Beach
(1 films)
Michael Mann
Michael Mann
(1 films)
Wes Studi
Wes Studi
(2 films)
Tantoo Cardinal
Tantoo Cardinal
(2 films)
John Fusco
John Fusco
(1 films)
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Filmography of Dennis Banks (7 films)

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Older Than America
Older Than America (2008)
, 1h41
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Adam Beach, Bradley Cooper, Tantoo Cardinal, Wes Studi, Dennis Banks, Chris Mulkey
Roles Pete Goodfeather
Rating53% 2.65072.65072.65072.65072.6507
This script must be run from the command line
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
, 1h52
Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Jodhi May, Eric Schweig, Steven Waddington
Roles Ongewasgone
Rating75% 3.798363.798363.798363.798363.79836
The action of the story takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years' War) in the Adirondack Mountains in what was then the British colony of New York. Three frontiersmen are traveling west to find a new home. The oldest is Chingachgook, the last chief of the Mohican tribe. With him is his son, Uncas, and an adopted son, a white man named Nathaniel Poe, who also goes by the name “Nathaniel Hawkeye”.
Incident at Oglala
Incident at Oglala (1992)
, 1h29
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Robert Redford, Dennis Banks, Russell Means
Roles Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement
Rating74% 3.7402853.7402853.7402853.7402853.740285
Thunderheart
Thunderheart (1992)
, 1h59
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Themes Films about racism
Actors Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward, Sheila Tousey, David Crosby
Roles Self
Rating67% 3.3959953.3959953.3959953.3959953.395995
During the early 1970s, FBI agent Ray Levoi is assigned to aid in the investigation of a political murder; that of Leo Fast Elk (Allan R.J. Joseph), on a Native American reservation in South Dakota. Agent William Dawes, Ray's superior, has chosen him for the task due to his mixed Sioux heritage which might assist in the inquiry as they interview local townspeople. Ray is partnered with agent Frank "Cooch" Coutelle, who has diligently worked on the probe looking to apprehend a prime suspect: Aboriginal Rights Movement radical Jimmy Looks Twice. While helping Cooch track down the suspect, Ray gradually becomes sensitized to Indian issues, partially from his attraction to Maggie Eagle Bear, a political Native American activist and schoolteacher.