# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-banks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:15:06.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-banks"
name: "Dennis Banks"
slug: "dennis-banks"
description: "Dennis J. Banks was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1968 to represent urban Indians. He was a pre-eminent spokesman for Native Americans. His protests won government concessions and created national attention and sympathy for the oppression and endemic social and economic conditions for Native Americans."
tagline: "Ojibwe co-founder of the American Indian Movement (1937-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dennis_Banks_(8673602267)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1937-04-12"
deathDate: "2017-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 244
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump