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Like a hurricane : the Indian movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee / Paul Chaat Smith & Robert Allen Warrior.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1996.Description: xiii, 343 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1565843169
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979.4/61 20
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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