A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement /

The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indigenous rights movement. A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blansett, Kent (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Colección:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
Temas:
Oakes, Richard, > 1942-1972.
Oakes, Richard, > 1942-1972
American Indian Movement > History.
American Indian Movement.
1969-1971
Mohawk Indians > Biography.
Mohawk > Biographies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Native Americans.
Mohawk Indians.
Alcatraz Island (Calif.) > History > Indian occupation, 1969-1971.
California > Alcatraz Island.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indigenous rights movement. A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes's life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. This invaluable history chronicles the mid-twentieth century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780300240412
0300240414
0300227817
9780300227819

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