Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power

Zusatztext Without ever losing sight of the larger tragedy of American Indian history, Sherry Smith writes deftly and often wryly of the 1960s and 1970s when the counterculture and the New Left discovered Indians, and Indians discovered the political possibilities that alienated young white Americans presented. The results were sometimes comic, sometimes painful, occasionally touching, but always revealing of the changing valence of Indian peoples and cultures in American society and American politics. This is an original and absorbing book. Informationen zum Autor Sherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History and Associate Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 (OUP, 2000); The View from Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians; and Sagebrush Soldier: William Earl Smith's View of the Sioux War of 1876. Klappentext This book explains how, and why, hippies, Quakers, Black Panthers, movie stars, housewives, and labor unions, to name a few, supported Indian demands for greater political power and separate cultural existence in the modern United States. Zusammenfassung This book explains how, and why, hippies, Quakers, Black Panthers, movie stars, housewives, and labor unions, to name a few, supported Indian demands for greater political power and separate cultural existence in the modern United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Ch 1. In the Pacific Northwest Ch 2. The California Scene Ch 3. Alcatraz Ch 4. Back to the Land Ch 5. From Coast to Coast Ch 6. On to Wounded Knee Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Sherry L Smith, Sherry L. Smith, Sherry L. (University Distinguished Profess Smith, Sherry L. (University Distinguished Professor of History and Associate Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies Smith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9780190217853
• ISBN: 978-0-19-021785-3
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas