Russell Means Dies At 72

Russell Means, the American Indian activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee and who later became a Hollywood actor, has passed away at 72.



Means died Monday at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Oglala Sioux Tribe spokeswoman Donna Salomon revealed. The firebrand former leader of the American Indian Movement and one-time Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. president had been battling advanced esophageal cancer.

It has to be mentioned that Means’ acting career started in 1992 when he played Chingachgook alongside Daniel Day-Lewis' Hawkeye in "The Last of the Mohicans." He also made an appearance in the 1994 film "Natural Born Killers," voiced Chief Powhatan in the 1995 animated film "Pocahontas" and guest-starred in 2004 on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

Means kept busy with his Hollywood career even as he battled the cancer that eventually took his life.

R.I.P Russell Means

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