The Hank Adams Reader: An Exemplary Native Activist and the Unleashing of Indigenous Sovereignty

by David Wilkins

Overview

Vine Deloria once said that Hank Adams was the most important Native American in the country. From his treaty rights work to his mediation of disputes between AIM and the US government in the 1970s, Adams shaped modern Native activism. For the first time, Adams' writings are collected, evidencing his unparalleled role in Indian affairs and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555917579
Publisher:	Fulcrum Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2011
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Professor David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has adjunct appointments in Political Science, Law, and American Studies. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill in 1990. Wilkins' research and teaching interests include indigenous politics and governance, federal Indian policy and law, comparative politics, and diplomacy and constitutional development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

Foreword Billy Frank vii

Introduction 1

Fishing Rights 19

Trail of Broken Treaties and Wounded Knee II 89

Civil Rights and Termination 147

Media, Literature, and Scholarship 173

Trust, Land Issues, and Indian Claims 207

American Indian Policy Review Commission 223

Taxation, Economic Development, and Socioeconomic Issues 251

Critiques of Federal and Native Agencies 275

Index 303

About the Editor 312