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Author:

Shreve, Bradley Glenn, 1970-

Title:

Red power rising : the National Indian Youth Council and the origins of Native activism / Bradley G. Shreve ; foreword by Shirley Hill Witt.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xviii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Politics and government--20th century.
Power (Social sciences)--United States--History--20th century.
Indians of North America--History--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
National Indian Youth Council--History--20th century.
Indian activists--Southwest, New--History--20th century.
Indian youth--Southwest, New--History--History--20th century.
Indian students--Southwest, New--History--History--20th century.
Student movements--Southwest, New--History--20th century.
Decolonization--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Freedom for our people" : foundations of a movement -- "We are born at a time when the Indian people need us" : the Regional Indian Youth Council -- "Nationalism is a journey, a journey from hope into fear" : the Workshop on American Indian Affairs -- "We believe in a future with high principles derived from the values and beliefs of our ancestors" : the founding of the National Indian Youth Council -- "The time comes when we must take action!" : the fish-in campaign and the rise of intertribal direct action -- "We cannot be afraid of power; we must use it" : the growth of Red power militancy -- "Slug them in the mouth or shoot them" : reform, revolt, and reorganization in the NIYC -- "The National Indian Youth Council is a process, not an event" : continuity and transformation in the 1970s and beyond.

Series:

New directions in Native American studies ; v. 5.

ISBN:

0806141786 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780806141787 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)659412855

LCCN:

2010033799

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)