Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Book description:
"For a brief but brilliant season beginning in the late 1960s, American Indians seized national attention in a series of radical acts of resistance. Like a Hurricane is a gripping account of the dramatic, breathtaking events of this tumultuous period. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, interviews, and the authors' own experiences of these events, Like a Hurricane offers a rare, unflinchingly honest assessment of the period's successes and failures."
Why this is progressive/liberal: Progressives are often not so progressive on Indian rights. For example, I've never known an Indian that referred to him or herself as a Native American. We've taken hundreds of nations and lumped them all together. This is akin to asserting that a citizen of Mexico, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of Canada are all roughly the same because they're "Americans." Or, North Americans if you want to be more specific. This history of the American Indian protest movement in the early 1970s is a must read for anyone interested in Indian civil rights.
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