A Good Day to Die was screened on Thursday night at the Whitney Center for the Humanities at Yale University. What an exquisite irony, celebrating our humanity through the lens of our barbarism. Yet watching "A Good Day to Die "and the humanity of the first Americans, still here after all these years, does deeply affect the soul. What are we? Who are we? Why are we? As we approach Columbus Day next month, we are once again annually confronted with not being able to turn back the blood stained hands of time. But, we do once again have the opportunity to discover again some of the answers and solutions designed for a collective future. As we hear political echoes and organized war cries to take back our country might we be served well to honor and remember whose country this is?
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Dennis Banks co-founded the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) in 1968 to call attention to the plight of urban Indians in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The film presents an intimate look at Dennis Banks' life beginning with his early experience in boarding schools, through his military service in Japan, his transformative experience in Stillwater State Prison and subsequent founding of a movement that, through confrontational actions in Washington DC, Custer South Dakota and Wounded Knee, changed the lives of American Indians forever.
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Prior to the screening of " A Good Day to Die" Dennis Banks shared a mini performance
reminding us the earth mother beats in all of our hearts.
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