AdvertisementDennis Banks, Native American Activist And Wounded Knee Occupier, Dies At 80October 30, 2017Camila DomonoskefacebookEmailDennis Banks, a leader of the American Indian Movement, burns a government proposal that would have let the AIM occupiers leave Wounded Knee in 1973. The Native American protesters then put the ashes into an envelope and sent it back to the government. (Bettmann Archive)