. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. Indian Power! Raymond J. DeWlallie The occupation of the abandoned federal prison island of Alcatraz by a group of young American Indians in November 1969 and Its subsequent reselzure by armed United States marshals in June 1971 brought the Indian power movement to public attention. Similar take-overs of abandoned government property, justified by a clause in the Sioux treaty of 1868, have occurred in other parts of the country as well, such as recent attempts by a group of homeless Indians to settle on government land In the Chicago area. The Indian power
. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. Indian Power! Raymond J. DeWlallie The occupation of the abandoned federal prison island of Alcatraz by a group of young American Indians in November 1969 and Its subsequent reselzure by armed United States marshals in June 1971 brought the Indian power movement to public attention. Similar take-overs of abandoned government property, justified by a clause in the Sioux treaty of 1868, have occurred in other parts of the country as well, such as recent attempts by a group of homeless Indians to settle on government land In the Chicago area. The Indian power leaders and their supporters have frequently been branded as merely militant fanatics. Yet their actions have powerful symbolic value. They are effectively educating the American public to the problems of Indians, America's poorest minority, and to the fact that Indians will no longer sit passively on their reservations waiting for benefits from a sympathetic President and Congress. At the same time, public concern about pollution and the environmental crisis has stirred interest in Indians, who as the original owners of this continent lived for many centuries in harmonious balance with nature. Young Americans in particular are looking to Indian life-ways, philosophy, and religion as sources of inspiration for solving the important problems of our times. In the wake of this interest a flurry of books has appeared, some written by Indians themselves. The six volumes discussed here, which all appeared during the last two years, are representative of the diversity and breadth of this growing literature. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West By Dee Brown. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. 487 pp. $ This well-written history of the Plains Indian wars from 1860 to 1890 is, in the author's words, an "oral history," By this he means that he has attempted to let the Indians speak for themselves. Whenever possible the narrative
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