Dennis Banks Credit: Neeta Lind, CC BY 2.0

Last week on a podcast with Jon Stewart, historian Heather Cox Richardson somehow turned an anecdote about the horrific massacre at Wounded Knee into a rallying cry for doing the right thing.

Dennis Banks, a Native American activist who helped lead the occupation of Wounded Knee, died in 2017 at the age of 80, and this weekend a resurgent Florida chapter of the American Indian Movement (AIM) will screen a documentary about his life.

Ken Burns, luminary of the genre, characterized “A Good Day to Die”—which tracks Banks’ time in boarding school, the military and prison—as “wonderful, sorrowful, compelling.” A discussion will follow.

There’s no cover for the screening of “A Good Day to Die” with Florida AIM happening Saturday, Nov. 1 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg.