Grassroots Indian Activism Analysis

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In the sixth chapter “Grassroots Indian Activism: The Red Power Movement in Urban Areas” of his book Reimaging Indian Country, Nicolas G. Rosenthal analyzes the influence of national Red Power activism on local American Indian activism and places emphasis on various examples of local Red Power. Rosenthal demonstrates how local and national activism were related in the big network of Red Power activism, especially throughout the 1970s. The comprehension of the connections between the different stages of activism is, according to the author, important for the understanding of how the movement was interpreted and transformed over the years. Events of protests and occupations like Alcatraz and Wounded Knee were important to draw national and