Russell Means: Summary
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- Birthday:
- 11-10-1939
- Birthplace:
- Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA
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Russell Means was born an Oglala/Lakota Sioux Indian. He was the first national director of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in which role he became prominent during 1972 standoff with the US government at Wounded Knee. In 1987, he joined the US Libertarian party and announced his candidacy for the party's presidential nomination. (He lost the nomination to Congressman Ron Paul.) Since 1992,...
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- Means has argued against the use of the term "Native American" and instead use "American Indian." He argues this in that Indian comes from an Italian expression meaning "In God."(edit)
- Means first venture into politics came in 1974 when he ran for the Presidency of his native Oglala Sioux tribe against the incumbent Dick Wilson. Means lost the election.(edit)
- Due to his heavy involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM), Means is often erroneously credited as being a founding member of AIM. Means was actually an early leader of the organization, not a founding member.(edit)
- Means often jokes about him being the only "good" thing in the film Natural Born Killers. He says that in that his character was the only "good" or kind person in the film, while the rest of the cast portrayed "evil" or bad characters.(edit)
- Means admits that the Disney cartoon movie of Pochahontas was one of the best movies that has ever been created about Indian people in Hollywood. This is due to the fact that the story contained no stereotypes of American Indians and respected them as a people not an image.(edit)
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