Description
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.