Fri November 22, 2019
Author Kent Blansett will discuss his new book "A Journey to Freedom".
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Author Kent Blansett will discuss his book A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, and the Red Power Movement.
Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes's life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, and the Red Power Movement provides an invaluable history chronicling the mid-twentieth-century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day. #OneCityOneBook
Book signing will follow the event.
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Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes's life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, and the Red Power Movement provides an invaluable history chronicling the mid-twentieth-century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day. #OneCityOneBook
Book signing will follow the event.
Author Kent Blansett will discuss his book A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, and the Red Power Movement.
Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes's life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, and the Red Power Movement provides an invaluable history chronicling the mid-twentieth-century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day. #OneCityOneBook
Book signing will follow the event.
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Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes's life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, and the Red Power Movement provides an invaluable history chronicling the mid-twentieth-century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day. #OneCityOneBook
Book signing will follow the event.
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