Sault loses Eddie Benton-Benai

Better known around the Sault as Grand Chief Eddie Benton-Banai, pioneer of culture-based education and major figure in the early years of the American Indian Movement, the founding academic and spiritual advisor at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig/Shingwauk University has returned to his home on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in northern Wisconsin. said today, announcing Benton-Banai's departure at a funding announcement for the National Chiefs Library, currently under construction across Queen