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A Journey to Freedom: The Life of Richard Oakes, 1942-1972 (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

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A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was once instrumental within 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 a very powerful new biography in accordance with extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and members of the family.

Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new viewpoint at the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to arrange 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 upward thrust of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to at the moment.

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