A Journey to Freedom

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 Indigenous rights movement

About the author

Kent Blansett, a Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Shawnee, and Potawatomi descendant, is associate professor of Indigenous studies and history at the University of Kansas.

Summary

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 Indigenous rights movement

Product details

• Authors: Kent Blansett
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780300255188
• ISBN: 978-0-300-25518-8
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
• Series: The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity; The Henry Roe Cloud American I
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology