By Bruce Johansen
A shiny description of the folks, occasions, and matters that perpetually replaced the lives of local american citizens in the course of the Nineteen Sixties and 1970s—such because the career of Alcatraz, fishing-rights conflicts, and members reminiscent of Clyde Warrior.
• Compares American Indian content material to Black, Latino, and Asian civil-rights routine on the comparable historic era
• Relates the actions of the yankee Indian circulate to these of many local teams that have been lively on the similar time
• attracts connections among actions within the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies to results at the present time, comparable to a ban on Navajo uranium mining, improvement of reservation infrastructure, and reclamation of many local languages
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