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Dear Mr. Hall,
Dennis is presently on a LONG WALK across the US for the next 5 months to bring awareness to the high rates of diabetes on the reservations and will not have easy means to respond to important emails such as the one you just sent him.
I can tell you that the American Indian Movement began (1968) in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota the state where Dennis was born because of the unfair treatment of Indian people forced off the reservations and into the cities where they could not find decent jobs or housing and where police brutality toward Indian people was intolerable. Dennis is Ojibwe and was born on Leech Lake reservation in a far northern area of MN in 1937.
The American Indian Movement was the spark that began Native Peoples Movements all over the world and over the years Dennis has responded to requests to appear in numerous countries to address the very questions you have asked him here. He is a man of the people, all native people, all oppressed people.
I will forward this email to him but please understand if you do not hear back from him on this that it is only because he is walking to help educate all people (but especially native people) about how to reverse diabetes through diet and exercise. You may consider googling Dennis Banks and native peoples rights or even be more specific in your search to see if you might find things he has said in the past in regard to the issues you are asking his position on.
In Spirit,
Lynn
Lynn Salt
Co-Director/ Producer A GOOD DAY TO DIE (Dennis Banks and the American Indian Movement) documentary
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