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 ...

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.

Russell Means died Monday at the age of 72 at his ... Bellecourt was the first AIM leader, elected after giving a fiery speech calling on a small group of Indians about the need for ...

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.

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!

RAPID CITY, S.D., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- American Indian activist Russell Means says in a video made ... The tumor in his throat obstructed his speech and his ability to eat, but he is speaking clearly ...

Native American activist Russell Means has announced in a video that ... The tumor in his throat obstructed his speech and his ability to eat, but he is speaking clearly again.