Civil rights leader Dennis Banks

Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, gives a traditional blessing over a meal at the home of professors Jordan Kerber and Mary Moran. The blessing involved putting a sample of each type of food and a bit of tobacco on a plate and bringing it outside as an offering. An Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Banks gave a talk on campus titled “State of the Affairs of Indian Country,” from his perspective as a leader in indigenous civil rights since 1968. (Photo by Andrew Daddio)

Faculty and students gather as Dennis Banks blesses a meal

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