Russell Means(1939-2012)
- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
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 the 1973 standoff with the U.S. government
at Wounded Knee. In 1987, he joined the U.S. Libertarian Party and
announced his candidacy for the party's presidential nomination. (He
lost the nomination to Congressman
Ron Paul). Since 1992, Means has
appeared in
The Last of the Mohicans (1992),
Natural Born Killers (1994)
and other movies. He has championed the rights of indigenous peoples in
other countries as well as the U.S. In a televised speech to the 2000
Libertarian Party National Convention, Means said that he prefers the
label "Indian" to the more politically-correct "Native American".
"Everyone who is born in America is a native American", he said.
