Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century

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Over the twentieth century, American Indians fought for their right to be both American and Indian. In an illuminating book, Paul C. Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and patriotism in both domestic and international contexts.

Battles over the place of Indians within the fabric of American life took place on reservations, in wartime service, in cold war rhetoric, and within the courtroom. The Society of American Indians, founded in 1911, asserted that The usa needed Indian cultural and non secular values. In World War II, Indians fought for their ancestral homelands and for the US. The domestic struggle of Indian nations to defend their cultures intersected with the international cold war stand against termination—the attempt by the federal government to end the reservation system. Native Americans seized at the ideals of freedom and self-determination to convince the federal government to preserve reservations as places of cultural strength. Red Power activists within the 1960s and 1970s drew on Third World independence movements to assert an ethnic nationalism that erupted in a series of protests—in Iroquois country, within the Pacific Northwest, all the way through the occupation of Alcatraz Island, and at Wounded Knee.

Believing in an empire of liberty for all, Native Americans pressed the US to honor its obligations at home and in a foreign country. Like African Americans, twentieth-century Native Americans served as a visible symbol of an The usa in search of rights and justice. American history is incomplete without their story.

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