Marriage and Family
According to birth records from Minnesota, Dennis has seven children: Janice Banks (born 2 March 1962), Darla Banks (born 18 February 1963), twins Deanna Jane and Dennis James Banks (born 20 April 1964), Red Elk Banks (born 7 June 1970), Tatanka Wanbli Banks (born 7 September 1971), and Minoh Bikwad Banks (born 10 October 1992).
At Pine Ridge Reservation Banks met Darlene Kamook Nichols, who was 17 and still in high school. He was 32. After she graduated, they started seeing each other and married. They had four daughters and a son together: Tokala, Tiopa, Tashina and Tatanka. They later divorced. (Kamook Nichols remarried and is now known as Darlene Ecoffey).
Banks had one stepdaughter, Danielle Louise Dickey. She was murdered in 2007 on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. He has a granddaughter named Migizi Roberts from Minneapolis Minnesota.
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