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Author Blansett, Kent, author.

Title A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement / Kent Blansett
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series The Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity
Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
Contents 1. Akwesasne, Kahnawà:ke, and "Little Caughnawaga" -- 2. The emergence of a leader -- 3. Better Red than dead -- 4. I'm not your Indian anymore -- 5. Alcatraz is not an island, it's an idea -- 6. You are on Indian land -- 7. Freedom
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2018)
Subject Oakes, Richard, 1942-1972.
SUBJECT Oakes, Richard, 1942-1972 fast
Subject American Indian Movement -- History
SUBJECT American Indian Movement fast
Subject Mohawk Indians -- Biography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Native Americans.
Mohawk Indians
SUBJECT Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1969-1971. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92002532
Subject California -- Alcatraz Island
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018933962
ISBN 9780300240412
0300240414
0300227817
9780300227819
Other Titles Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement