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We are still here : a photographic history of the American Indian Movement /

The American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of resistance. Spurred by the Civil Rights movement, Native people began to protest the decades, even centuries, of corruption, racism and abuse they had endured, arguin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bancroft, Dick, 1927-
Other Authors: Wittstock, Laura Waterman
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2013]
Subjects:
American Indian Movement > History.
American Indian Movement > History > Pictorial works.
Indians of North America > Politics and government > Pictorial works.
Indians of North America > Government relations > 1934- > Pictorial works.
Indian activists > United States > Portraits.
Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972 > Pictorial works.
Wounded Knee (S.D.) > History > Indian occupation, 1973 > Pictorial works.
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Summary:The American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of resistance. Spurred by the Civil Rights movement, Native people began to protest the decades, even centuries, of corruption, racism and abuse they had endured, arguing for political, social and cultural change.
Physical Description:xxvii, 210 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780873518871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
087351887X (pbk. : alk. paper)