American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks (left) and movie star Marlon Brando joined in a song at a meeting of Menominee Warriors supporters at the Keshena American Legion. Later there was a march to a National Guard checkpoint outside the seized Alexian Brothers Novitiate, Keshena, Wisconsin.

Dennis Banks (1937-2017) was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. He was a long-time leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in Minneapolis in 1968 to represent urban Native Americans.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: United Press International stamp.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Alexian Brothers Novitiate
• Civil Rights Movements
• Dennis Banks
• Injustice
• Keshena
• Keshena American Legion
• Marlon Brando
• Meetings
• Menominee
• Native American sovereignty
• Racial Discrimination
• Seizures
• Singing
• Warriors

• Image Dimensions: 8 7/16 x 6 5/8 in. (21.43 x 16.83 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 9 1/8 x 6 15/16 in. (23.18 x 17.62 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin