It's the mid-1960s, and everyone is fighting back. Black Americans
are fighting for civil rights, the counterculture is trying to
subvert the Vietnam War, and women are fighting for their
liberation. Indians were fighting, too, though it's a fight too few
have documented, and even fewer remember. At the time, newspapers
and television broadcasts were filled with images of Indian
activists staging dramatic events such as the seizure of Alcatraz
in 1969, the storming of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building on
the eve of Nixon's re-election in 1972, and the American Indian
Movement (AIM)-supported seizure of Wounded Knee by the Oglala
Sioux in 1973. Like a Hurricane puts these events into historical
context and provides one of the first narrative accounts of that
momentous period. Unlike most other books written about American
Indians, this book does not seek to persuade readers that
government policies were cruel and misguided. Nor is it told from
the perspective of outsiders looking in. Written by two American
Indians, Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior, Like a
Hurricane is a gripping account of how for a brief, but brilliant
season Indians strategized to change the course and tone of
American Indian-U.S. government interaction. Unwaveringly honest,
it analyzes not only the period's successes but also its failures.
Smith and Warrior have gathered together the stories of both the
leaders and foot soldiers of AIM, conservative tribal leaders, top
White House aides, and the ordinary citizens caught up in the
maelstrom of activity that would shape a new generation of
political thought. Here are insider accounts of how local groups
coalesced to form a national movement for change. Here, too, is a
clear-eyed assessment of the period's key leaders: the fancy dance
revolutionary Clyde Warrior, the enigmatic Hank Adams, and AIM
leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means. The result is a human story
of drama, sacrifice, triumph, and tragedy that gives a ground-level
view of events that forever changed the lives of Americans,
particularly American Indians.
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