Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier

male, 65 years old
convicted of murder, American, amnesty international, From North Dakota, Ojibwa, COINTELPRO targets…AmericanIndianMovement, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Native American, Indian Affairs
Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive...
Dennis Banks

Dennis Banks

male, 77 years old
COINTELPRO target, ojibwe language, United States Congress, COINTELPRO targets, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Federal government of the United States…AmericanIndianMovement, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Native American, American
Dennis Banks (born April 12, 1937), a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist and author, is an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian...
Anna Mae Aquash

Anna Mae Aquash

female, deceased (1975)
Red power, death by firearm in the United States, indigenous peoples, resistance movement, assassinated, from the Halifax Regional Municipality…Murdered Native American, american indian, Native American, American Indian in the United States, AmericanIndianMovement
Anna Mae Aquash (also Anna Mae Pictou Aquash or Anna Mae Pictou; first name also spelled Annie Mae; Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (b. in a small...
Clyde Bellecourt

Clyde Bellecourt

male, 73 years old
COINTELPRO target, from Minnesota, Vernon Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun, Clyde Howard Bellecourt…White Earth Indian Reservation, AmericanIndianMovement, Native American
Clyde Howard Bellecourt (born May 8, 1936) is a Native American civil rights organizer noted for co-founding the American Indian Movement (AIM) in...
Floyd Red Crow Westerman

Floyd Red Crow Westerman

male, 73 years old
musician, Renegades, The Doors, Walker, Texas Ranger, Dances With Wolves, AmericanIndianMovement…Native American
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, born in 1936, is a Dakota musician, activist and actor born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Sioux reservation in the U.S....
Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

male, deceased (2004)
film actor, on the waterfront, From Libertyville, Illinois, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Best Drama Actor Golden Globe, Death from respiratory failure…American Civil Rights, Bisexual American actor, AmericanIndianMovement, American, American Film Institute
Marlon Brando, Jr. was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely regarded as...
Lame Deer

Lame Deer

male, deceased (1976)
Tahca Ushte, Lakota language, activist, lakota, rodeo clown, rodeo…indian reservation, Native American, AmericanIndianMovement, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Lame Deer, (in Lakota "Tahca Ushte"; 1900 or 1903-1976, sources differ), also known as John Fire, John (Fire) Lame Deer and later The Old Man, was...
Mary Crow Dog

Mary Crow Dog

female, 56 years old
Thunder Heart, writer, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Lakota Woman, Incident at Oglala, The Leonard Peltier Story, Lakota Woman, Siege at Wounded Knee…U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Rosebud Indian Reservation, Native American, AmericanIndianMovement
Mary Crow Dog, also known as Mary Brave Bird (born 1953 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota), is a Native American writer and activist....
Sacheen Littlefeather

Sacheen Littlefeather

female, 62 years old
Kateri Prayer Circle, Yaqui, Playboy, pueblo, oscar, Maria Cruz…AmericanIndianMovement, American Indian in the United States, Native American, american indian
Sacheen Littlefeather (born Maria Cruz on 30 January 1947) Salinas, California, USA is an activist who donned Apache dress and rejected the Oscar...
Jim Pepper

Jim Pepper

male, deceased (1992)
Jazz fusion musician, Avant-garde jazz musician, cancer death, Oregon musician, timbre, Native American Church…AmericanIndianMovement, Night of the First American, Native American, American
Jim Pepper (b. Salem, Oregon, June 18 1941; d. Portland, Oregon, February 10 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer of Native...