Editor’s note: This article originated as a controversial speech given at the Black Hills ... A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, Russell Means was perhaps the most outsized personality in ...

Russell Means, internationally known Lakota activist ... “There is another way,” Means said in the speech. “There is the traditional Lakota way and the ways of the American Indian peoples.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Russell Means was a National Director for the American Indian Movement with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1989 Senate Committee.

Russell Means: I was born on the Pine Ridge Indian ... Everything was liberation—freedom, free speech, black freedom, women’s lib, gay liberation. Liberation, liberation!