MEANS, RUSSELL (Nov 10, 1938 - Oct 22, 2012) was an Oglala Sioux activist, writer, and actor, who founded the CLEVELAND AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER and was a central figure in the American Indian Movement.

At Wounded Knee To the Editor: In his review of Russell Means's autobiography, "Where White Men Fear to Tread" (Oct. 15), Brent Staples says Wounded Knee showed an "exterminatory impulse" by the ...

Mr. Banks, a Chippewa, led often-violent insurrections to protest the treatment of Native Americans and to call attention to a history of injustices against them. By Robert D. McFadden A young ...