Red Elk (born June 7, 1970), Tatanka Wanbli (born September 7, 1971), and Minoh Bekwad Banks (born October 10, 1992). At Pine Ridge Reservation, Banks met Darlene Kamook Nichols, who was 17 and still in high school. He was 32. After she graduated, they started seeing each other and married. They had three daughters and a son together: Tokala, Tiopa, Tasina and son Tacanunpa Banks. They later divorced. (Kamook Nichols remarried and is now known as Darlene Ecoffey.) In Salt Lake City he had a daughter, named Arrow, with Angie Begay (Navajo). Banks has several stepchildren: Roland (Kawliga) Blanchard, Beverly Baribeau, Glenda Roberts, Denise Banks, Pearl Blanchard, and Danielle Louise Dickey. (Dickey was murdered in 2007 on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota). He has a granddaughter named Migizi from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Banks had 20 children and more than 100 grandchildren. Mr. Banks was in a committed relationship with Lumbee Attorney and Native Rights Activist, JoJo Brooks Shifflett in the later years of his life and at the time of his death. Discography In 2012, Banks joined forces with Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning artist Kitaro in celebration of the Earth on the CD Let Mother Earth Speak. The project contains a message of international peace, intertwined with stories and life lessons from Banks, and featuring the music of Kitaro. The album was released on September 11, 2012, on Domo Records. Death Banks died at the age of 80 of complications from pneumonia following heart surgery on October 29, 2017, in Rochester, Minnesota. Filmography War Party (1988) - Ben Crowkiller / Dead Crow Chief The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - Ongewasgone Thunderheart (1992) - Himself Older Than America (2008) - Pete Goodfeather (final film role) American Experience (2009, TV Series documentary - We Shall Remain: "Part V - Wounded Knee") - Himself A Good Day to Die (2010, Documentary) - Himself Nowa Cumig: The Drum Will Never Stop (2011, Documentary) - Himself California Indian (2011) - Himself Autobiography Banks, Dennis and Richard Erdoes (2004). Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement'', Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. References External links Nowa Cumig Institute SacredRun, 2007 Still Strong Dennis Banks Official Website Let Mother Earth Speak Facebook Page A Good Day to Die - film Nowa Cumig: The Drum Will Never Stop - film 20th-century Native Americans Native American leaders Native American activists Members