The Resume

(April 12, 1937-October 29, 2017)
Born in Leech Lake Reservation, Minnesota
Member of the Ojibwe tribe
Also known as Naawakamig ('In the Center of the Ground')
Co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM, 1968)
Led AIM in occupying the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1972) and Wounded Knee (1973)
Appeared in the movies 'War Party' (1988), 'Last of the Mohicans' (1992), 'Thunderheart' (1992) and 'Older Than America' (2008)
Recorded the album 'Let Mother Earth Speak' with New Age musician Kitaro (2012)

Why he might be annoying:

He said that in his mid-20's, 'I wasted like six years doing absolutely nothing.... Being drunk, carrying on, wasting my life.'
He spent two years in jail for stealing sixteen bags of food from a grocery store.
He fathered 17 children with five wives.
He was convicted of inciting a riot and assault after a demonstration in Custer, South Dakota (1975).
He avoided serving time for a decade, fleeing first to California, where Governor Jerry Brown refused to extradite him, then to an Onandaga reservation in New York.

Why he might not be annoying:

When he was five, he was taken from his family and placed in a Bureau of Indian Affairs-run boarding school that tried to strip him of his Indian culture.
After serving 14 months in prison on the Custer charges, he became an alcohol and drugs counselor at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
He got the states of Indiana and Kentucky to pass strict laws against desecrating Native American graves.
He organized 'Sacred Runs' to publicize the prevalence of diabetes among Indians.
He said, 'What we did in the 1960s and 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Breeders [Have 5 or More Kids] (Ranked: 17)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 52]
• I Died in 2017 (Ranked: 80)
• I Married at Least Five Times [I Do! I Do! I Do! I Do! I Do!]
• I Married Outside My Race
• I Named My Kid After Myself
• Look at Me, I'm Giving Thumbs Up
• Look at Me, I'm Using a Cane or Crutches
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Younger than Me
• Parents of Twins
• Profiles 35251-35500 (Ranked: 35347)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 123 Votes: 78.86% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 31 Votes: 41.94% Annoying