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DESCRIPTION:Celebrate The 46th Anniversary of United Native Americans Saves The 
 American Indian Movement\n\n#January 25, 
 2022\n#Globally\n#HistoricalVideo\n\n46th Anniversary of UNA saving 
 AIM\nhttps://youtu.be/ldfuwWYroPs\n\nSan Francisco Examiner\nSunday, 
 January 25,1976\nFugitive Indian Leader Banks Arrested In E. Bay\n\nBy 
 Larry Kramer\n\nDennis Banks, Fugitive Leader of the American Indian 
 Movement, was captured by the FBI at the Home of an El Cerrito College 
 Instructor yesterday morning.\n\nBanks, 38, had been sought by the FBI 
 since Aug. 5, when he failed to appear in a Rapid City, S.D. courtroom for 
 sentencing. He had been Found GUILTY July 26 of Being armed during a Riot 
 and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon without intent to Kill.\n\nBanks, a 
 Chippewa Indian who was a co-founder of AIM in 1968, is also wanted in 
 Portland where he was indicted Dec.22 for Firearms Violations.\n\nArrested 
 with Banks was Lehman Leonard Brightman, 45, Director of The Native 
 American Program at Contra Costa Junior College.\n\nBrightman's Wife Trudy 
 said the family was asleep when the Telephone Rang at 8:30 a.m.\n\n"It was 
 the FBI. They said we were heavily surrounded and everyone should come out. 
 I looked outside and they were out by Our Bedroom Window.\n\n"My husband 
 said to take the children out to the neighbors, and I did. Then they (the 
 FBI) took my husband and Dennis away to jail."\n\nMrs. Brightman would not 
 say how long Banks had been at the home. The FBI said Brightman will be 
 charged with Harboring a Federal Fugitive.\nLeader's of AIM were 
 unavailable for comment.\n\nBrightman, a Sioux Indian Born in South Dakota, 
 Established The First Native American Studies Program at The University of 
 California at Berkeley in 1969.\n\nBut two years later he resigned under 
 student pressure.\n\nBanks issued a statement, through his Lawyers, from EL 
 Cerrito jail calling the Arrest part of "a pattern established through-out 
 the decades of Indian-White relations.\n\n"Every Lawman should live on a 
 Reservation and perhaps they would begin a campaign against those who have 
 caused the misery that prevails daily in Indian homes."\n\nBanks also said 
 "the real crime in this country (is) Indian People live in virtual exile in 
 our homelands."\n\n"I was born an Indian," Banks said, "and even the threat 
 of spending my entire life in jail and chained, I will not submit my way 
 and my beliefs to be somebody else: I am proud of being an Indian. I will 
 die with that pride."\n\n#UnitedNativeAmericans #Saves #AIM\n\nIn July 
 1975, a South Dakota jury convicted him on charges of riot and assault with 
 a deadly weapon for his role in the 1973 riot at the Custer County 
 Courthouse. The conviction carried a maximum sentence of 15 years in 
 prison.\n\n\nBefore sentencing, Banks heard prison guards say he would not 
 last 20 minutes in the South Dakota State Penitentiary. He fled, only to be 
 arrested by FBI agents on January 25, 1976, at Famous Native American 
 Scholar and Civil Rights Leader Lehman L. Brightman's Home in Northern 
 California.\n\n\nLehman Brightman-National President of United Native 
 Americans,Inc. was charged with Harboring a known Fugitive, charges against 
 Professor Brightman were later dropped in the Interest of Justice. Lehman 
 Brightman Lead a massive petition movement which was supported by Native 
 American Singer Buffy St. Marie, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, and Marlon 
 Brando appealed to Governor Brown on Banks's behalf.\n\n"If during the 
 American Revolution, George Washington knocked on your door and he was 
 being chased by British soldiers, would you help him?" Brightman asked. "He 
 was not George Washington, but he was another Indian who was being hunted 
 down by the goddamn government." Brightman Said\n\n\nPlease Make a 
 Contribution?\nhttps://cash.app/$QuanahBrightman\n 
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