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

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Author / Creator:Blansett, Kent, author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:The Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity
Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12871312
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Varying Form of Title:Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
ISBN:9780300240412
0300240414
9780300227819
0300227817
9780300227819
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2018).
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 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. TEST.
Other form:Print version: Blansett, Kent. Journey to freedom. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 0300227817