Critical Social Inquiry 0210 - Indigenous Organizing and the Struggle for Liberation, 1945-Present

From Archie Phinney to Winona LaDuke and beyond, the struggle for Indigenous Liberation is an important but overlooked component of 20th Century U.S. history. After World War II, the United States government pushed to "Terminate" tribes and encouraged Native people to move to cities for industrial employment. Tribes responded with the creation of the National Congress of American Indians. Twenty years later, a younger generation of urban-based individuals, usually described as the Red Power movement captured the attention of the country with their occupations of Alcatraz, the Bureau of Indian affairs, and Wounded Knee. In recent years, struggles for earth and water, child welfare, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women have taken center stage. Keywords: Socialism, Marxism, Sovereignty, Red Power, MMIW

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