Red Power Movement
- The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism This link opens in a new windowA digital collection of 14,195 documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library.
Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement by Publication Date: 2013-02-01After more than a century of poverty and repression, stoked by the example of the movement against the Vietnam War and the upheaval among black and Chicano civil-rights activists, the American Indian Movement saw Native peoples taking a stand for fishing rights, land rights, and forming resistance to coal and uranium mining on tribal land.
Life of the Indigenous Mind : Vine Deloria Jr. And the Birth of the Red Power Movement by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781496211903Publication Date: 2019-08-01David Martínez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), the most influential Indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual architects of the Red Power movement.
Hippies, Indians, and the fight for red power by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9780199855605Publication Date: 2012Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians, celebrities, and others joined with Red Power activists to fight for Indian rights. In Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power, Sherry Smith offers the first full account of this remarkable story.
Sovereignty and Activism
These People Have Always Been a Republic : Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912
Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power.
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity : Language, Social Practice, and Identity Within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to claim what is commonly thought to be an extinct ethnic category.
How We Go Home : Voices From Indigenous North America
In myriad ways, each narrator's life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Theirs are stories among many of the ongoing contemporary struggles to preserve Native lands and lives—and of how we go home.
Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom : The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans
In telling his story, Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom relates an unprecedented civil rights victory for Native Americans: for the first time, in 1879, a federal court declared a Native American to be a "person"--a human being with the right to file an action for a redress of grievances in a federal court, like every other person in the United States. Standing Bear's victory in Standing Bear v. Crook began a national movement of reforming Native American rights--albeit a slow one.
Indigenous Women and Work : From Labor to Activism
The essays in Indigenous Women and Work create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of Indigenous women from the late nineteenth century to the present in the United States, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Canada.
American Indian Sovereignty : The Struggle for Religious, Cultural and Tribal Independence
In this historical account of the despotism against Native American culture, the altercations of sovereignty, territory, and pluralistic democracy are analyzed in an effort to provide a path towards justice.
As long as grass grows : the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock
As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy. Throughout 2016, the Standing Rock protest put a national spotlight on Indigenous activists, but it also underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental movement. Ultimately, she argues, modern environmentalists must look to the history of Indigenous resistance for wisdom and inspiration in our common fight for a just and sustainable future.
Paradigm wars : indigenous peoples' resistance to globalization
Best-selling author and cultural critic Jerry Mander has challenged dominant cultural mind-sets in books such as Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred. In Paradigm Wars, he and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global indigenous peoples movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive international roster of contributors to document the momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's surviving indigenous peoples.
As we have always done : indigenous freedom through radical resistance
In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Government Documents
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous People CrisisBureau of Indian Affairs site with data, case information and links to other government resources around missing and murdered indigenous people.
- Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs CanadaInformation from the Government of Canada around their response to MMIW, reports, helplines, and news.
Books and e-books
Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781772123678Publication Date: 2018-05-11In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all.
Violence against Indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance by Call Number: PR9185.6 .I5 H37 2017ISBN: 9781771122399Publication Date: 2017-08-24Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation's colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives have failed? Centring the voices of contemporary Indigenous women writers, this book argues for the important role that literature and storytelling can play in response to gendered colonial violence.
