The phrase "Red Power," coined by Clyde Warrior (1939 1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights. The Red Power movement arose in reaction to centuries of oppressive federal oversight of American Indian peoples. It comprised an assortment of grassroots organizations that fought for treaty rights, tribal...
The phrase "Red Power," coined by Clyde Warrior (1939 1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this fir...
