From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie: The Alliance for Sovereignty Between American Indians and Central Europeans in the Late Cold War

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ISBN: 9781438461212
Dewey: 323.1197
LCC Number: E98.T77
Author: Gyorgy Ferenc Toth|Gyeorgy Ferenc Taoth
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Pages: 320
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“From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie” examines the history of the transatlantic alliance between American Indian sovereignty activists and Central European solidarity groups, and their entry into the United Nations in the 1970s and 1980s. In the late Cold War, Native American activists engaged in transnational diplomacy for nation building by putting outside pressure on the US government for a more progressive Indian policy that reached for the full decolonization of Native American communities into independence. By using extensive multinational archival research complemented by interviews, Gyorgy Ferenc Toth investigates how older transatlantic images of American Indians influenced the alliance between Native activists and Central European groups, how this coalition developed and functioned, and how the US government and the regimes of the Eastern Bloc responded to this transatlantic alliance. This book not only places the American Indian radical sovereignty movement in an international context, but also recasts it as a transnational struggle, thus connecting domestic US social and political history to the history of Cold War transatlantic relations and global movements.”

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Weight 1.2 lbs
Dimensions 9.1 × 6.1 × 1.1 in
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