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Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism. By Bradley G. Shreve. Foreword by Shirley Hill Witt. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. xviii + 275 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.
While many histories of the "Red Power" movement trace its origins to the founding of the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis during 1968 and the occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay a year later, Bradley G. Shreve offers a compelling case that youth activism began during the 1950s, most notably in the Southwest. The Kiva Club (University of New Mexico), the Tribe of Many Feathers (Brigham Young University), and the Sequoyah Club of Oklahoma, among others, joined into the Regional Indian Youth Council in 1959 and the...