The New Indians

The New Indians, Stan Steiner, 1968

Red Power representative: "We are no longer fighting for physical survival...We are going to cut the country's whole value system to shreds...we have a superior way of life...If Red Power is to be a power in this country it is because it is ideological." (X), Vine Deloria Jr.

The new generation: "university educated Indians" (X)
He argues the the turning of Indian life into "romantic myth" brought the nation peace of mind (xi)

Circumstances in Jay, Oklahoma, a town of 1120 people in 1966; "Hostile in a way so ingrained that no one needs to say anything about it..." (p. 2)

Tulsa Tribune hearkens the 400 gun-wielding Cherokees to the 1st step to the Little Big Horn again (p. 4)

Hunting & Fishing rights battles raised awareness of Indian situations. 25K Indians fought in WWII. (p. 19)

"He is the envy of all the others who want to, but cannot be, Indian." (p. 20)

WWII was cultural: 1st time since "military defeat of their forefathers 10s of thousands...left reservations." (p. 21)

Between 1950 and 1960 the number of Indian high school students went from 24K to 57K; number in college from 6500 to 17K. (p. 31)
Blatchford argues the growth of "Indian Clubs" on college campuses allowed more Indians to continue in education (p. 34)

look up quote on p. 42: "The government seem to feel...is the way we look...sing...But Indian culture is..."

"The Indian had been stereotyped to act in certain ways." p. 54

Marlon Brando, sometimes alleged to be an Indian, took part in the Fish-ins (Washington Journal). The Department of Justice moved to defend tribal fishing rights against Washington State (p. 61)

Mohawks of Caughnawaga built NY skyscrapers (P. 160)

Will Rogers: "In wars the slogan is Honor, but the object is land." (p. 162)

Monroe Jymm & James Atcitty: 1st & 2nd Indians in New Mexico House of Reps in 1964 (231-233)
Tom Lee was the 1st Indian from New Mexico in the Senate in 1966 (233)
Lloyd House was elected in Arizona (233)
Indians were politically strong in the '66 elections in the West (234)
The Washington Post had articles discussing Indian voting power (236)

South Dakota, 1963, legal battles over the state having legal jurisdiction on the reservation (245-249)

Harvard Law Review referenced "complete paternalism" towards the Native Americans (259)
"The Indian: America's Unfinished Business", 1966, propounded "do-gooder" paternalism (261)

Indian tribal nationalism: outgrowth of post-WWII move for end of colonialism in Africa & Asia? (278)
Vice President Hubert Humphrey thought so in "The Optimist" (278-279)