Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
by Paul Chaat Smith, Robert Allen Warrior
201 Members (4.18)
On This Page
Description
It's the mid-1960's, and everyone is fighting back. Black Americans are fighting for civil rights, the counterculture is trying to subvert the Vietnam War, and women are fighting for their liberation. Indians were fighting, too, though it's a fight too few have documented, and even fewer remember. At the time, newspapers and television broadcasts were filled with images of Indian activists staging dramatic events such as the seizure of Alcatraz in 1969, the storming of the Bureau of Indian show more Affairs building on the eve of Nixon's re-election in 1972, and the American Indian Movement (AIM)-supported seizure of Wounded Knee by the Oglala Sioux in 1973. Like a Hurricane puts these events into historical context and provides one of the first narrative accounts of that momentous period. Unlike most other books written about American Indians, this book does not seek to persuade readers that government polices were cruel and misguided. Nor is it told from the perspective of outsiders looking in. Written by two American Indians, Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior, Like a Hurricane is a gripping account of how for a brief, but brilliant season, Indians strategized to change the course and tone of American Indian-U.S. government interaction. Unwaveringly honest, it analyzes not only the period's successes but also its failures. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
6+ Works 411 Members
7+ Works 332 Members
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
- People/Characters
- James Abourezk; Hank Adams; John Adams; Spiro Agnew; Joseph Alioto; American Horse (show all 325); American Indian Press Association; Jack Anderson; Mad Bear Anderson; Apaches; Nogeeshik Aquash; Linda Aranaydo; John Two Birds Arbuckle; Assiniboine; Atlanta Braves; Wyman Babby; Tom Bad Cobb; Sarah Bad Heart Bull; Wesley Bad Heart Bull; Dennis Banks; Bannock; Robert Bayless; Edgar Bear Runner; Clyde Bellecourt; Vernon Bellecourt; Robert Bennett; Eddie Benton; Big Foot; Gladys Bissonette; Pedro Bissonette; Ben Black Elk; Nicholas Black Elk; Wallace Black Elk; Black Panther Party; Francis Boots; Marlon Brando; Regina Brave; Mary Brave Bird; Lehman Brightman; Dee Brown; Louis Bruce; Robert Burnette; Herb Caen; Edgar Cahn; Carter Camp; Frank Carlucci; Stokely Carmichael; Sidney Carney; Donald Carroll; Ed Castillo; Everette Catches; Peter Catches; Cherokee; Chief Noc-A-Homa; Chippewa; Ellis Chips; Winston Churchill; Frank Clearwater; Morningstar Clearwater; Cleveland Indians; Buffalo Bill Cody; Iron Eyes Cody; Wayne Colburn; John Collier; Anita Collins; Comanche; Lee Cook; Allen Cottier; Ronald Craig; Crazy Horse; Cree Nation; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Creek Indians; Walter Cronkite; Crow Indians; John Crow; Leonard Crow Dog; Verona Crow Dog; James Czywczynski; Jeanette Czywczynski; Angela Davis; John Dean; Ada Deer; Charles de Gaulle; Vine Deloria, Jr.; Vine Deloria, Sr.; Bernadette Devlin; Douglass Durham; John Echohawk; John Ehrlichman; Julie Nixon Eisenhower; Gladys Ellenwood; Ralph Erickson; Eskimo; Enrico Fermi; Tim Findley; Jane Fonda; Frank Fools Crow; Glenn Ford; Lenny Foster; Marvin Franklin; Kent Frizell; William Fulbright; Clive Gildersleeve; Agnes Gildersleeve; Anthony Garcia; Carol Jean Garcia; Leonard Garment; William Golding; L. Patrick Gray III; Grass Greasy; Dick Gregory; Merv Griffin; Lloyd Grimm; Aubrey Grossman; Che Guevara; Alexander Haig; H. R. Haldeman; James Haley; Tom Hannon; Leslie Hare; Melvin Hare; Fred Harris; John Hart; Ira Hayes; Richard Hellstern; Walter Hickel; Stan Holder; Hopi Tribe; Della Hopper; Hubert Humphrey; H. Lamar Hunt; Harold Ickes; Indians of All Tribes; Iroquois Confederacy; Pete Jemison; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Juaneño; Shirley Keith; Edward Kennedy; Ethel Skakel Kennedy; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Calvin Kentfield; Bobbie Kilberg; Jake Kills Enemy; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Kiowa; Henry Kissinger; Frank Klein; Richard Kleindienst; John Knifechief; Lois Knifechief; Egil Krogh; William Kunstler; Robert Kunzig; Richard La Course; Dick LaGarde; Lakota Tribe; Agnes Lamont; Buddy Lamont; Jess Largent; David Leach; Michael Leach; Stella Leach; Evelyn Leading Fire; Sacheen Littlefeather; Harrison Loesch; Vernon Long; Bernard Ludder; Stanley Lyman; Troy Lynn; Oren Lyons; George McGovern; Carl McIntire; Richard McKenzie; Rocky Madrid; Mandan; John D. Manke; George Marshall; Mark Martinez; Betty Means; Deynon Means; Hank Means; LaNada Means; Lorelei Means; Russell Means; Theodora Means; Walter Means; Menominee People; Nelson Miles; Al Miller; Sid Mills; Missouria; Marilyn Miracle; Miniconjou; George Mitchell; John Mitchell; Peter Mtten; Mohawks; Mohican; James P. Morton; Rogers Morton; Ellen Moves Camp; Louis Moves Camp; Dillion S. Myer; Ralph Nader; Clydia Nahwooksy; Reaves Nahwooksy; National Council of Churches; National Indian Brotherhood; National Indian Youth Council; National Tribal Chairmen's Association; Navajo; Wallace Newman; Richard Nixon; Poker Joe Nobel; Adam Nordwall; Anne Oakes; Bruce Oakes; Richard Oakes; Yvonne Oakes; Oglala Sioux; Ojibway/Ojibwe Nation; Earl Old Person; Omaha Tribe; Bobby Onco; Gerald One Feather; Oneida; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Osaga; Ottawa Indians; Jake Ours; Paiute; Papago; Passamaquoddy; Brad Patterson; Pawnee; Leonard Peltier; Pequot; Ron Petite; Annie Marie Pictou; Browning Pipestem; Pomo People; Ponca; Potawatomis; Stanley Pottinger; Quakers; Quinault; Anthony Quinn; Luwana Quitiquit; Ronald Reagan; Red Cloud; Edgar Red Cloud; Wilbur Reigert; Bert Reynolds; Malvina Reynolds; Rincon; Robert Robertson; Rose Robinson; Franklin Roosevelt; Richard Ross; Ramon Roubideaux; Buffy Sainte-Marie; Mari Sandoz; Darld Schmitz; Seneca Tribe; Shawnee; Shoshone; Sioux Indians; Sitting Bull; Michael Smith; Twila Smith; Reuben Snake; Special Operations Group; Benjamin Spock; Stan Steiner; Tecumseh; Mel Thom; Grace Thorpe; Jim Thorpe; Glen Three Stars; Touch the Clouds; Joseph Trimback; Chuck Trimble; John Trudell; Lou Trudell; Wovoka Trudell; Harry S. Truman; Dennis Turner; Tuscarora; Uncle Tomahawks; William Veeder; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Josetts Wahwassuck; Levi Walker, Jr.; Tillie Walker; Ralph Ware; Volney F. Warner; Clyde Warrior; Washington Redskins; Murray Wax; Arvin Wells; William Wendt; Colin Wesaw; Bernie White Bear; Eddie White Wolf; Richard Whitman; Wichita; Leo Wilcox; Bruce Wilkie; Jerry Wilkinson; Edward Bennett Williams; Dick Wilson; James Wilson; Jonathan Winters; Harlington Wood; Morris Wounded; Wovoka; Howard Yackitonipah; Yakima; Raymond Yellow Thunder; Severt Young Bear; William Youpee; Curly Youpee
- Important places
- Warrenton, Virginia, USA; American Indian Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse; Atomic Energy Commission; Black Hills, South Dakota, USA; Bureau of Caucasian Affairs; Bureau of Indian Affairs (show all 55); Cleveland American Indian Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Coalition of Indian Controlled School Boards; Control Data Corporation; Custer, South Dakota, USA; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, USA; Ellis Island, New York, USA; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington, USA; Fort Peck Reservation, Montana; Fort Sill Indian School, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA; Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial; General Service Administration; Gordon, Nebraska, USA; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, USA; Honeywell Corporation; Intertribal Friendship House, Oakland, California, USA; Kashia Coastal Reserve; Leech Lake Reservation, Minnesota, USA; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, USA; National Congress of American Indians; Canada; National Indian Press Association News Service; Native American Church; Native American Embassy; Native American Rights Fund; Native American Women's Action Council; Northern States Power; Office of Economic Opportunity; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA; Pipestone Indian Boarding School, Pipestone, Minnesota, USA; Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Rapid City, South Dakota, USA; Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, USA; Sacred Heart Church; Sand Creek, Colorado, USA; San Francisco Indian Center, San Francisco, California, USA; Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA; Southwest Regional Indian Youth Council; Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford, California,USA; Stillwater Prison, Bayport, Minnesota, USA; Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, USA; United Bay Area Council of American Indian Affairs; United Native Americans; United Scholarship Service; U.S. Park Service; Winnebago Reservation, Thurston County, Nebraska, USA; Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA
- Important events
- Alcatraz Island occupation (1969-11-20 | 1971-06-11); Airlie Center Conference; American Indian Movement; Concerned Indians of America; Custer Riot (2-6-1973); Custer's Last Stand (show all 19); Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868; Ghost Dance; Kent State shootings; Pan American Native Quest for Justice; Pentagon Papers; Poor People's Campaign; Sun Dance; Trail of Broken Treaties; Vietnam War; War on Poverty; Watergate Scandal; Wounded Knee Occupation [1973]; Wounded Knee Massacre
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 979.461 — History & geography History of North America Great Basin and Pacific Slope region of United States California West central counties; San Francisco group San Francisco
- LCC
- E93 .S655 — History of the United States America Indians of North America
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 201
- Popularity
- 162,161
- Rating
- (4.18)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
