Bradley G. Shreve . Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism . Foreword by Shirley Hill Witt . (New Directions in Native American Studies, number 5.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2011. Pp. xviii, 275. $34.95.

2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 569-570
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Native American Studies ◽  
Red Power ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Youth Council

5. Native American literary studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-84
Author(s):  
Sean Teuton
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Native American Studies ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Red Power ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
Diverse Student Body ◽  
American Students ◽  
1960S And 1970S

During the time of the Red Power movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, Native American students brought their visions of justice to college campuses to create what they began to describe as “Native American Studies.” Pressuring universities to accept a more diverse student body, Native scholars demanded that universities allow the production of knowledge by and for Native Americans. To succeed Native American Studies had to tear free of the “salvage anthropology” that shaped the European study of indigenous people from the first moments of contact. Native scholars accomplished an imaginative shift in self-conception: Native Americans are not helpless victims of colonial devastation, but instead the shrewd protectors of indigenous thought.

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