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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Claiming that the occupation was in retaliation for the government’s breach of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which had granted the Black Hills to the Sioux, Means declared that he was ...