This National Native American Heritage Month, our editorial board would like to take this opportunity to remember the late Native American libertarian activist Russell Means, of the Oglala Lakota nation.

Means, who was born Nov. 10, 1939 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and spent much of his early life here in California. His family resettled in the San Francisco Bay Area when he was a toddler and he graduated from high school in San Leandro.

Means rose to prominence in the late 1960s and 1970s as a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Through his activism in support and defense of Native American communities, Means participated in many of the most well-known protest activities of AIM. This included his participation in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz by Nat

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