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Remember Russell Means, a champion for liberty

Means led key Native American protests and ran for Libertarian presidential nomination in 1987, challenging Ron Paul by a narrow margin, highlighting government interference concerns.

Summary by LA Daily News
This National Native American Heritage Month, our editorial board would like to take this opportunity to remember the late Native American libertarian activist Russell Means, of the Oglala Lakota nation. Means, who was born Nov. 10, 1939 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and spent much of his early life here in California. His family resettled in the San Francisco Bay Area when he was a toddler and he graduated from high scho…

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LA Daily News broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Sunday, November 16, 2025.
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