Indian Activist Begins Parole as Counselor
Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. —
Indian activist Dennis Banks began his 14-month parole from the South Dakota Penitentiary on Monday, working as a counselor at the Lone Man School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, said Warden Herman Solem.
Banks was sentenced in October, 1984, on riot and assault charges in connection with a 1973 melee at the courthouse in Custer County, S.D.
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