Young Veronica stands in the middle of two different roads. On the one side is her Lakota community and the “good red road” she has walked down since she was a child. With her family and tribe, she cherishes tradition, legacy, and heritage. On the other side is the black asphalt road of the outside world. At her Catholic boarding school, she and the other children are isolated from their Lakota identity and forced to learn a different, meaner...

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Publisher's description: Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe, is probably the most influential Indian leader of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells his own story for the very first time and reveals an inside look at the birth of the American Indian Movement. Born in 1937 and raised by his grandparents on the Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota, Dennis Banks grew up...

Tells the story of the Wounded Knee Incident, the 71-day occupation of the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota by Oglala Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and political activists representing the American Indian Movement.

For the first time, the true history of AIM is revealed through the eyes of an FBI Agent who was there. And for the first time, the AIM leadership's dirty little secrets are exposed, unlike in any other history book. In fact, this book exposes the history books. It is time to set the record straight for the benefit of all Native Americans.