Russell Means, Who Clashed With Law as He Fought for Indians, Is Dead at 72

imageBy ROBERT D. McFADDEN . Russell C. Means, the charismatic Oglala Sioux who helped revive the warrior image of the American Indian in the 1970s with guerrilla-tactic protests that called attention to the nation’s history of injustices against its indigenous peoples, died on Monday at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was 72.                                The cause was esophageal cancer, which had spread recently to his tongue, lymph nodes and lungs, said Glenn Morris, Mr. Means’s legal representative. Told in the summer of 2011 that the cancer was inoperable, Mr. Means had already resolved to shun mainstream medical treatments in favor of herbal and other native remedies...Continue reading...

. “When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!”Russell Means, quote.  Where White Men Fear to Tread.https://vimeo.com/47232709