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Subject(s)

• Redhouse, John [Browse]
• Navajo Indians—Four Corners Region—History—20th century [Browse]
• Activism—Four Corners Region—History—20th century [Browse]
• Racism against Indigenous peoples—Four Corners Region—History—20th century [Browse]
• Mineral industries—Four Corners Region—20th century [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Writer of foreword

• Denetdale, Jennifer [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Yazzie, Melanie K. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Autobiographies [Browse]

Summary note

"A one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s. From the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Red Power activists put everything on the line to organize mass movements and direct actions for Native liberation. It was an extraordinary time defined by stunning victories and intense struggles. In just a few short years, Redhouse and his contemporaries changed Navajo and Native people's collective destinies. So profound was their impact that it can still be felt fifty years later. Written in the first-person with a spirit of generosity and witness, John Redhouse describes the fever pitch of the times, focusing on the racist and exploitative bordertowns in the Four Corners area of the Southwest region. He interweaves a piercing critique of violence against Navajo people in reservations bordertowns with a condemnation of the violence that rapidly growing mineral extraction in and around the Navajo Nation introduced to Navajo life. As a firsthand participant in some of the most important twentieth-century struggles against this manifold violence, Redhouse is one of only a few grassroots intellectuals who can tell this story. [This book] brings readers to the enduring struggle for Native liberation, traced over half a century ago, where John Redhouse and many more led a revolution that continues to this day."--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword / Jennifer Denetdale
• Introduction / Melanie K. Yazzie
• Bordertown clashes: Organizing against exploitation ; The long hot summer of 1974 ; Working for a Greater Indian America
• Resource wars & contested territories: Coal and water politics threaten Navajo survival ; Uranium is genocide ; The corruption of tribal government ; The dangerous enemy ; Continuing the long walk for justice.

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ISBN

• 9781945335273 ((paperback))
• 1945335270 ((paperback))

OCLC

1453071292

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