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"The word has reached few of the white man's settlements, but an Indian "uprising" — ideological, social, legal, political — is underway on the reservations. The "new Indians," college-educated, but contemptuous of industrial civilization and spurred by a growing anger, are on the move. "Red Power" is their cry.

Stan Steiner has wandered for a number of years among the country's Indian tribes, listening to them talk as they rarely do an outsider. In this understanding and moving book he tells us what he has learned.

That includes many dramatic narratives: the Washington State "fish-in" of tribes — some armed — intent on saving ancient fishing grounds; the return of the GI warriors from foreign battlefields to be purged of the alien spirit; the "Battle of Santa Fe," where the government held a conference on Indian Affairs but barred the doors to the Indian leaders; the Red Muslim movement; ABC — Americans Before Columbus; the lonely life of tribesmen in the cement prairies of the Western cities; the Uncle Tomahawks who made accommodation with the Great White Father; the poor, alienated, the unemployed, the exploited, unaffected by the government's War on Poverty.

The tribal leaders, old and young, come alive in Stan Steiner's vivid portraits — the Episcopal Archdeacon, a Sioux who, after forty years in the church, still, very privately, beats his tom-tom in his suburban cellar ("Quietly, so the Lord won't hear me"); Anne Wauneka, the great and regal Navajo; Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson, young Iroquois Nation leader; Vine Deloria, Jr., Standing Rock Sioux advocate of Red Power; and many others.

The Indian, long silent and "stoic," has found his voice, vibrant, angry, eloquent. Thanks to Stan Steiner it can be heard.

With documents, bibliography, charts, tribal map. Illustrated with 22 halftones."--Book jacket. 

xiii, 348 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. 

Contents:
The case of the deerslayer --
The warriors return --
The powwow of the young intellectuals --
The red Muslims --
The fish-in within the fish --
The academic aborigine --
The Great White Father myth --
The Christ who never came --
The time machine --
The factory without a time clock --
The lost tribes of rugged individualists --
Go in beauty --
As long as the grass shall grow --
The cement prairies --
The war on Hosteen poverty --
The changing women --
Warpath on the reservations --
Uncle tomahawks and hidden colonialists --
Red power --
Appendices. A. Sources ; B. "Let us develop a model for the former colonial world ..." ; C. "Tribalism and the modern society" ; D. 1. "On the 'wise all-knowing' white friend" ; 2. "Watts and Little BIg Horn" ; E. Preamble to the Constitution of the National Indian Youth Council, founding resolution, and statement of purpose ; F. "Which one are you?: five types of young Indians" ; G. "So you want to be a leader" ; H. "Historical survey of American Indians" ; I. Chronology of Indian history: 1492-1955 ; J. Statistics of Indian tribes: population and land.

Includes bibliography and index.