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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Wounded Knee."”.
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Wounded Knee, 1973: Consummatory and instrumental functions of militant discourse
… 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 to American Indians, both at …
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Intertribal Communication, Literacy, and the Spread of the Ghost Dance
… continued. Following the massacre of Lakotas at Wounded Knee, communication among tribes continued, partly as a continuing effort to assess the ghost dance and partly to evaluate Indians’ place in the new arrangement of power.</p> <p>By examining in detail these emerging systems of communication …
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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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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 …