Something Just Happened to the Black People of the United States WE ARE NO LONGER WHAT WE WERE! Negotiation, which according to Rev. Cleage should amount to a real ‘transfer of power’, was not possible before the riots: one does not negotiate with slaves. Until July, the whites of Detroit, deep inside themselves, considered the […] Continue reading →

Politics of Vandalism (1968) by Stanley Cohen Deviant behavior is not a static category: an act must be so labeled by others. This means that the sociologist should be on guard when society (or powerful groups in society) designates certain behavior problematic or deviant. In regard to some forms of mental illness, for example, R. […] Continue reading →

Dr. King Planning Protests To ‘Dislocate’ Large Cities (1967) Massive but Nonviolent Campaign Is Sought, Before Congress Adjourns, to Get Federal Aid for Negroes By GENE ROBERTS Special to The New York Times ATLANTA, Aug. 15 – The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said today that he planned to dislocate Northern cities with massive […] Continue reading →

Nashville Protests Against Repression of Black Community (1968) NASHVILLE, Tenn. – People here are taking the offensive against attempts to repress the black community-and the power structure is backing down. Police rampaged through the ghetto for a week in late January, supposedly looking for some men who had killed a policeman (see February Patriot). Their […] Continue reading →

The Young Lords (1970) A group of revolutionary Puerto Rican youths have occupied a church in El Barrio, New York City’s Puerto Rican ghetto. They have renamed the church La Iglezia de la Gente-People’s Church. Until last Sunday, this church only opened a few days a week for services, but now the people of the […] Continue reading →

Letter From a Navajo Indian to the U.S. ArmyBy Raymond Beletso Dear Mr. D. D. Spahr:This letter is in answer to the two notices or Questionnaires you have sent to me in the last 6 weeks, this last one, day before yesterday. I am filling out this last one and returning it to you today. […] Continue reading →

Native American Speaks Out About Poverty (1965)By Clyde Warrior The American Indian situation is a condensed and distilled version of the state of the union. The problems of American Indians are the result of bureaucratic behavior, of dehumanized interaction, of intellectuals defining the System. In January of this year the National Indian Youth Council submitted […] Continue reading →

Rolling Thunder Speaks Out on Native ActivismBy Marvin Garson They’ve pushed the Indian far enough, says Rolling Thunder. We’re not going to pay any more taxes, and we’re not going to give up any more land. Rolling Thunder is a Shoshone Indian from Carlin, Nevada. He is a lawyer and a warrior. He gives the […] Continue reading →

Native American Anarchists (1965)Book Reviews by D’Arcy McNickle THE LOST UNIVERSE. By Gene Weltfish. Basic Books. 506 pp.THE LONG DEATH: The Last Days of the Plains Indians. By Ralph K.Andrist, The Macmillian Co. 371 pp. As to the question of posting sentinels to guard against surprise attacks, Dr. Weltfish suggestively writes that they were a […] Continue reading →