Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement

Description

Rising out of more than a century of poverty and pervasive 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 shifted the debate over “the Indian problem” to a new level.
Many Native peoples also took a stand for fishing rights| land rights| and formed resistance to coal and uranium mining on tribal land.
This work tells the story of that movement| and provides the first encyclopedic treatment of this subject.
Providing a vital documentation of a controversial and often surprising period in American Indian history| Bruce E.
Johansen| an accomplished scholar and authority on Native American history| provides more than descriptions of historic events and careful analysis; he also frames what occurred in the American Indian Movement personally and anecdotally| drawing from individual stories to illustrate larger trends–and to ensure that the material is appealing to high school students| university-level readers| and general readers alike.