Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 (School for Advanced Research Global Indigenous Politics)
This book contains sixteen well-written chapters by anthropologists, historians, legal authorities, and Native American leaders. These narratives provide multifaceted perspectives on how Indians, since 1900, have used political activism, other than the militancy of the American Indian Movement, to ensure their survival. Part one deals with contexts for writing a new American Indian political history. Part two shows the encounters between Natives and newcomers that began during the colonial era have continued to the present. Part three provides case studies of contemporary Indian sovereignty in action. [This book] is a path breaking effort to better understand the complex origins and functioning of modern tribal sovereignty and self-determination. --Kenneth Philip, Western Historical QuarterlyA multidimensional and actually riveting volume whose depth continues to impress the reader with each successive essay. The multifaceted case studies in this volume feature an unwillingness to settle for simplistic formulations about the legacies of the Red Power movement and its contemporary manifestation in the so-called sovereignty era. --Les W. Field, Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 65, 2009A groundbreaking work that offers a new approach to modern American Indian history. Dense, revisionist, theoretical, and for the most part meticulously researched. --Bradley G. Shreve, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 3, Spring 2009