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 A Good Day to Die
(2010, 92 min.) US
Directors. Lynn Salt (Choctaw), David Mueller
An intimate look at the life of Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), from boarding school and the military to his transformative experience in Stillwater State Prison. AIM’s game-changing confrontations in Washington, D.C. and Custer, South Dakota, and the epic standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973 ushered in a new era of Native American pride and self-determination.
Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video
Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI; A Good Day to Die - photograph by Michelle Vignes |
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