A Good Day to Die
A Good Day to Die

A Good Day to Die

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2010
1h 31m
6.5(2 votes)
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Documentary

Overview

Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.

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32 members
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Dennis Banks

Self - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa

Dennis Banks
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Brenda Child

Self - Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota; Ojibwa

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Bob Hicks

Self - Filmmaker; Creek - Seminole

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Sydney Byrd

Self - Dakota

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George Mitchell

Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa

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Frances Fairbanks

Self - Director, American Indian Center, Minneapolis; Ojibwa

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Jay WhiteCrow

Self - AIM Member; Seneca

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Lyle Rustad

Self - Co-Founder, Diversity Foundation

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Clyde Bellecourt

Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa

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Lehman Brightman

Self - Founder, United Native Americans; Lakota - Creek

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Wilmer Mesteth

Self - Traditional Leader and Educator; Lakota

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Charlie Hill

Self - Comedian; Oneida

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Wes Studi

Self - Actor; Cherokee

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Ken Tilsen

Self - Defense Attorney, Wounded Knee Trial

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Cy Griffin

Self - Videographer

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LaDonna Harris

Self - Former wife of US Senator Fred Harris; Comanche

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Della Warrior

Self - C.O.O., Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation; Otoe - Missouria

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Eda Gordon

Self - Defense Investigator, Wounded Knee Trial

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Joann WhiteCrow

Self - AIM Member; Cherokee

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Marshall McKay

Self - Tribal Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation

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George Tennyson

Self - US Marshal, South Dakota

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Cora Jones

Self - Former employee, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Dakota

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Marshall Young

Self - Judge, Custer Trial, Custer, SD

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Tashina Banks

Self - Dennis Banks' daughter; Lakota - Ojibwa

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Dorothy Sun Bear

Self - Wounded Knee Museum; Lakota

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Roselyn Jumping Bull

Self - Great granddaughter of Sitting Bull; Lakota

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Rick Thomas

Self - Vietnam Veteran; Dakota

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Larry Anderson

Self - Vietnam Veteran, Tribal Councilman; Navajo

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Leonard Wabasha

Self - 7th Generation Hereditary Chief; Dakota

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Leonard Foster

Self - AIM Member; Navajo

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De Glassgow

Self - Sheriff, Custer County, SD

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Jerry Brown

Self - Attorney General, California / Former California Governor

Jerry Brown

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