Russell Means

Russell Means, one of the charismatic leaders of AIM, the American Indian Movement made famous at Wounded Knee, was at various points in his career, shot in the back by a BIA policeman (the bullet missed all vital organs and Means was quickly released from the hospital), shot at from a passing car (the bullet grazed his head but did no serious harm), shot in the chest with a .222 rifle (again, suffering little damage), and stabbed in the chest by a prison-made knife; he partied in New York with Andy Warhol the weekend before facing murder charges for an incident in the bathroom of the Longhorn Saloon in Scenic, South Dakota involving Means and a fellow AIM member, an incident which left a Lakota from the Pine Ridge Reservation dead; Means later (he was found not-guilty) ran as Larry Flynt's vice presidential candidate in Flynt's 1983 campaign for the presidency; after some traveling to Africa and South America, Means became involved with Hollywood, appearing in Last of the Mohicans and doing the voice of Chief Powhatan for the Disney movie Pocahontas. His daughter (Means was married four times) was Miss Teen South Dakota.

This is paraphrased from Ian Frazier's book On The Rez.