American Indian Movement Activist Russell Means Dies at Seventy-Two


Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

November 12, 2012

Russell Means, American Indian Movement leader and activist, died Monday on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was seventy-two. In August 2011, Means announced that he had developed inoperable throat cancer. He also stated that he was ...read more

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