NMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red ...

Introduction to the Red Power movement -- Wounded Knee Creek: 1890 -- Failed Indian policy and the birth of Red Power -- Murder on the "res" -- The occupation of "The Knee" -- Indian women at Wounded ...

Richard Oakes was the face of the burgeoning “Red Power” movement when he led the famous Native occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969. But like other civil rights leaders at the time, he died too soon ...