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

Blansett, Kent, author

2018

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Oakes, Richard, 1942-1972. / American Indian Movement History. / American Indian Movement. / Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island (California : 1969-1971) / 1969-1971 / Mohawk Indians Biography. / Mohawk Indians. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal. / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. / HISTORY / Native American. / Alcatraz Island (Calif.) History Indian occupation, 1969-1971. / California Alcatraz Island.
• ISBN: 9780300227819, 0300227817

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E93 B636 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE