Eddie Benton-Banai, who helped found the American Indian Movement partly in response to alleged police brutality against Indigenous people, died Nov. 30 at a care center in Hayward, Wis. He was 89.
Family friend Dorene Day confirmed the death but did not provide a cause.
Mr. Benton-Banai, who is Anishinaabe Ojibwe, was born on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation in northern Wisconsin. He was the grand chief, or spiritual leader, of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge.
Mr. Benton-Banai’s place in the