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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"American Indian Movement"”.
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Wocante Tinza : a history of the American Indian Movement
… was to develop an ethnohistorical record of the American Indian Movement with an emphasis placed on portraying of the Indian view of the organization. In the course of the study, the movement was examined to determine its validity as a social organization within Indian society. To accomplish the …
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Prevailing Winds: Radical Activism and the American Indian Movement.
<p>In 1968 a number of Chippewa Indians met in Minneapolis, Minnesota to discuss some of the problems they faced in their communities. This meeting gave birth to the American Indian Movement. From 1968 to 1974, the American Indian Movement embarked on a series of radical protests designed to draw …
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Wounded Knee, 1973: Consummatory and instrumental functions of militant discourse
Little academic research exists of the American Indian takeover of the hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973. This thesis is an analysis of the discourse of the Wounded Knee incident, which served dual purposes for the activists. First, American Indian discourse served as a reinforcing agent …
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What's mine isn't yours, but what's yours is definitely mine: University student use of Cherokee Indian culture in identity formation
… links to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. I chose to analyze WCU's student newspaper within a 50-year period before and during the beginning emergence of the American Indian Movement to determine in what ways, if any, do students engage with settler-colonial narratives to …
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Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
… the themes discussed are the associations of Indian and Métis activists with Third World national liberation movements, Black Power groups in North America and other Indigenous organizations, such as the American Indian Movement. This study pursues numerous themes, including: racialization, …
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Re-membering the colonial present : Jimmie Durham's serious dance
… devoted nearly a decade to activist work for the American Indian Movement on both community and international levels, before returning to art practice in the 1980s. An articulate, astute writer, as well as cultural producer, Durham offers a nuanced theorization of present conundrums of …
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A Journey to Freedom: The Life of Richard Oakes, 1942-1972
… Oakes, and focuses on the climax of the national movement toward Native self-determination and freedom. 'A Journey to Freedom' investigates the intersections of place, space, identity, and socio/political coalitions within the Red Power movement. Oakes' leadership was influential in the Alcatraz …
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Red power in the age of Nixon : an analysis of the official memory of Native protest.
The Nixon administration is remembered for being one of the most progressive presidencies in history in terms of federal Native policy, and yet was still thoroughly colonial. One of the easily visible facets of its coloniality was its interactions with Native protesters, wherein government …
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One Nation, Separate Spheres: An Examination of Red Power Activism Between Two Mohawk Communities
… of Alcatraz Island in 1969 by a group called Indians of All Tribes marked the beginning of pan-Indian activism, inspiring diverse, indigenous efforts to bring about social change. The localism of native activism before the occupation of Alcatraz also extended to intratribal divisions which is …