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Jancita Eagle Deer had started seeing
Douglass Durham in the fall of 1974, soon after her return to South Dakota. According to Banks' 2005 memoir, he was concerned about Durham's relationship with Eagle Deer, especially after Aquash told him that Durham was physically abusing the young woman. Banks
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Jancita Eagle Deer continued to see Durham. On the night of April 14, 1975, she was struck and killed by a car while on a rural road in southern
Nebraska, 200 miles from home. The journalist Hendricks wrote that she had last been seen in the company of Durham. Eagle Deer's brother said a man had
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Eagle Deer testified at court. Janklow failed to appear in response to a BIA summons served through a US Marshal. Eagle Deer filed a petition (through her attorney Larry
Leventhal and tribal attorney Dennis Banks) to disbar Janklow from the tribal court, to prevent him from practicing at the
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Banks continued working with Durham for some time before he and other leaders confronted him and expelled him from AIM in
February 1975. They held a press conference in March, at which Durham also spoke and admitted he was an FBI informant. Durham had participated in the
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picked her up from their family house that night. The coroner's report said she may have been beaten before the accident, or injured in being pushed out of another car before being hit, but because of her injuries, he could not tell for sure.
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office to keep it out of the hands of the Tribal Court. The tribal court issued two misdemeanor warrants against
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for libel, but his suits were finally dismissed by the federal courts because of protection of free speech under the
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