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FREEDOMWAYS                                                                         FIRST QUARTER 1972

movement to the successful creation of farms and plantations in the post-Civil War South. The formation by the articulate and influential Black editor T. Thomas Fortune of the Afro-American League, an important predecessor of the NAACP, forms a fitting close to an excellent work of historical scholarship.

                                                                                        Norman Lederer

CHRONICLES OF AMERICAN INDIAN PROTEST. Compiled and edited with commentaries by The Council on Interracial Books for Children. Fawcett Premier, New York. 376 pages. $1.25 (paperback).

MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN can best be measured by his treatment towards minority groups. Most of this treatment is apparent through the many acts - both legel and illegal - of injustice afforded the American Indian. These acts have, in effect, forced the Indian into the background by stripping him of his lands, his culture, and his civilization. Taking the guise of treaties made to honor the Indian's rights, much of this injustice is not presented in histories while some of it appears in a distorted manner. It is the purpose of this volume, Chronicles of American Indian Protest, to present to the public the Indian's point of view. 

This is a comprehensive collection of documents which illustrates the American Indian's struggle from the sixteenth century to the present day's Red power movement. The documents appear chronologically under various headings which illuminate each chapter. In each instance there is an introductory or background explanation which explains the original document. Sometimes there is a Postscript to the document. The documents include speeches, letters, and excerpts from biographies and autobiographies. They are too numerous to mention, but represented are:

Pope's Uprising: the overthrow of Spanish rule in Taos (1680).
Pontiac's Rebellion: the alliance against the British (1763).
"We Shall Not Be Moved": the Cherokee Nation refuses removal (1823 and 1836).
"Proclamation to the White Father": the statement of the Indians occupying Alcatraz Island (1969).
Red Power: the Native Alliance for Red Power's Eight-Point Program (1969-1970). 
There is a Table of Contents but no Index. A listing of Indian
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