“We Have Always Had These Many Voices”: Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance

The era of Red Power in the 1960s and 1970s was a reassertion of the voice of American Indians. "Red Power" was the expression of American Indians' growing consciousness of pan- Indigenous identity and politics, a slogan that promoted Native sovereignty. And two of the most radical vo...

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Published in:American Indian quarterly 2015-07, Vol.39 (3), p.271-301
Main Author: Kim, Seonghoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
American Indians
Colonialism
Community Involvement
Community Relations
High School Students
Homeland
Native American dance
Native Americans
Native culture
Native North Americans
Oral poetry
Oral tradition
Poetry
Political activism
Politics
Printed Materials
Singing
Social Change
Tribal land
Tribes
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Summary:The era of Red Power in the 1960s and 1970s was a reassertion of the voice of American Indians. "Red Power" was the expression of American Indians' growing consciousness of pan- Indigenous identity and politics, a slogan that promoted Native sovereignty. And two of the most radical voices pioneering the idea of Red Power were abc and the Warpath, established by the National Indian Youth Council and by the United Native Americans in 1963 and 1968, respectively. The reference to "voices" demonstrated how oral tradition spans time and space, connecting people, and how that traditional function was being carried on in those written forms: a voice within the oral tradition solidifies a human social bond through the construction of a relationship between speaker and listener, and over time the repetition of the message becomes poetry. Based on this perspective, the author examines poems printed in Red Power newspapers during the movement's climactic era from 1968 to 1974.
ISSN:0095-182X
1534-1828
DOI:10.5250/amerindiquar.39.3.0271