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Like a Hurricane

The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee

By Smith, Paul Thomas & Warrior, Robert Allen

Publishers Summary:
This highly readable history documents three turbulent years in the history of Native America, beginning in the early winter of 1969, when a few dozen activists occupied Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. The American Indian Movement became prominent by that action, and Chaat and Warrior chart its fortunes through the three years culminating in both Nixon's reelection and the siege at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where armed AIM sympathizers held off federal agents for eight weeks. The period between Alcatraz and Wounded Knee, the authors write, "was for American Indians every bit as significant as the counterculture was for young whites, or the civil rights movement for blacks."

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ISBN

978-1-56584-316-5

Publisher

New Press