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Book SynopsisThe phrase
Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939-1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this biography of Warrior, Paul McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most significant figures in the fight for Indian rights.
Trade Review“In this long-overdue, well-researched biography, Paul R. McKenzie-Jones provides a vivid portrait of Clyde Warrior—Red Power’s early ideological architect. Cementing Warrior’s critical importance in the broader story of Indian activism, this book is essential reading for students of Native America and twentieth-century social and political movements.” —Sherry L. Smith, author of
Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power “Who was Clyde Warrior? At last, thanks to Paul R. McKenzie-Jones’s biography we have new insight into Red Power’s most intriguing figure. Warrior was a brother from an alternate universe, where Indian militants read the
New Republic, flew airplanes, and agonized about graduate school, even as they charted the future of indigenous revolution.”—Paul Chaat Smith, author of
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
