Like a hurricane :

Smith, Paul Chaat.

Like a hurricane : the Indian movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee / Paul Chaat Smith & Robert Allen Warrior. - New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1996. - xiii, 343 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Booklist, June 1996 Choice, February 1997 Kirkus Review, May 1996 Library Journal, July 1996 Publisher's Weekly, June 1996 Wilson's Public Library, May 1997

Tells the story of the actions taken by American Indians in the mid-1960s and early 1970s in an attempt to change the course of their interaction with the United States government, focusing on the Indian activist's seizure of Alcatraz in 1969, the storming of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972, and the American Indian Affairs in 1972, and the American Indian Movement-supported takeover of Wounded Knee by the Oglala Sioux in 1973.

Adult Follett Library Resources

1565843169


Indians of North America--Government relations--1934-
Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972.


Alcatraz Island (Calif.)--History--Indian occupation, 1969-1971.
Wounded Knee (S.D.)--History--Indian occupation, 1973.

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