Russell Means' all-but-forgotten Silicon Valley connection
The recent obituaries of one-time American Indian Movement leader Russell Means naturally included a list of the protests he participated in, including at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Mount Rushmore and Alcatraz.www.siliconbeat.com
Remembering Russell Means
Russell Means, who died on Tuesday, kept a place here in Santa Monica in recent years, with his wife Pearl. Once my wife Barbara and I took our son Liam for a visit to meet this man we described as having fought a real war against the government.www.thenation.com
Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian activist helped lead uprising at ...
Russell Means, the self-styled modern Indian warrior who forced international attention on the plight of Native Americans for more than four decades, first through militant protest and later through the power of his own celebrity, died Oct. 22 at his ...www.washingtonpost.com
Longtime activist Russell Means dies at 72 after years of fighting for ...
By Associated Press, AP. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Russell Means, a former American Indian Movement activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee, reveled in stirring up attention and appeared in several Hollywood films, has died.www.washingtonpost.com
American Indian activist Russell Means dead at 72
(Reuters) - American Indian activist Russell Means, whose lifelong campaign to assure the rights and dignity of his people grew to encompass Hollywood and indigenous populations worldwide, died on Monday at his South Dakota home, his family said.www.reuters.com
Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian rights activist, actor
Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in ...www.latimes.com
Russell Means a man of many messages, some of which essential to hear
It took a long time for Duane Brewer and Russell Means to patch things up. Their relationship had jagged edges back in the 1970s, when Means was a motivator of civil unrest for the American Indian Movement and Brewer was a young police officer with the ...rapidcityjournal.com
Russell Means, Native American Actor and Famed Activist, Dies at 72
Russell Means, the Oglala Sioux activist who revived indigenous pride as a leader of the American Indian Movement and appeared in such Hollywood movies later in life as The Last of the Mohicans and Natural Born Killers, has died.www.eonline.com
Means, Native American activist turned actor, dies at 72
\SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Russell Means never shunned attention. Whether leading Native Americans in railing against broken federal treaties, appearing in a Hollywood blockbuster or advocating a sovereign American Indian nation within U.S.www.nydailynews.com
Russell Means remembered for American Indian activism
FARMINGTON - Fierce American Indian activist Russell Means died Monday after a more than year-long fight with cancer, his least public battle since stepping into the limelight in the early 1970s.www.daily-times.com
'Last of the Mohicans' Director Michael Mann Recalls Russell Means
Russell Means, to director Michael Mann, had always symbolized the courage and determination of indigenous people fighting for their rights.blogs.wsj.com
Native American activist Russell Means had strong ties to Vallejo
Long before Russell Means (in his own words) became a "full-time Indian," the famed Native American activist and Hollywood actor was just a young kid growing up in Vallejo.www.timesheraldonline.com
Russell Means, RIP
Sioux Indian rights activist, actor, and former seeker of the Libertarian Party's presidential nod in 1988, Russell Means, has died at age 72 of esophageal cancer. He had shunned Western medicine in treatment of the cancer. This New York Times obituary ...reason.com
Russell Means Has Left Us to Fight for Ourselves
Early this morning, after a long struggle with cancer, Russell Means went to join his ancestors from his family's ranch in Porcupine, South Dakota.blogcritics.org
Russell Means remembered as Native American catalyst
Growing up in a family steeped in Native activism, I learned at a young age about Russell Means' fight for the people. As a college student, I learned Means wasn't the saintly folk hero I had made him out to be.siouxcityjournal.com
Warrior Russell Means to be honored Wednesday
Photo Russell Means by Daniel Luna, Longest Walk 1978. The life of Russell Means, a warrior for the people, will be celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Kyle, South Dakota.narcosphere.narconews.com
Saying Good-bye to George McGovern and Russell Means – Heroes of the 1970 ...
When heroes from our past pass on, sometimes it seems like there's a rush to the exit doors. This weekend and today, both George McGovern and Russell Means passed through that door. Both of these heroes of the Seventies lived and died in South Dakota.obrag.org
Indian activist Russell Means remembered as inspiring but controversial
"No one can deny that Russell Means and AIM voiced our frustration, channeled our anger and represented to the nation and the world the hopes that Indian people have for our lives and for the generations to come," he said.www.omaha.com
Russell Means Has Died In South Dakota
Russell Means was probably the most controversial Native American since the 19th century Indian Wars. He died of throat cancer on his ranch at Porcupine, South Dakota, on Monday morning, just one day after George McGovern, the South Dakota politician ...lezgetreal.com
Russell Means's Death Inspires Pine Ridge to Declare War on Cancer
On October 22, when Russell Means walked on after several months of battling inoperable throat cancer, Oglala Sioux Tribal President John Yellow Bird Steele announced a new effort to declare war on cancer in Indian country.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
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