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FREEDOMWAYS FOURTH QUARTER 1972
death by order of the State of Utah on November 19, 1915, the First World War had already started and was being used as an excuse to suppress labor unrest in this country and in some other parts of the world. His followers believed that he was deliberately killed by the State of Utah, because he was a member of the militant labor movement called the Industrial Workers of the World, the I.W.W., or the "Wobblies." The 30,000 people who marched in the procession after his funeral were saying with their bodies that they did not accept the conviction of murder of which he was convicted. 
The Man Who Never Died is a moving play that is also living literature. In his introduction to the book, Peter Seeger has this to say: "Joe Hill was one of the great men of this century, precisely because he was a rank-and-filer.... Joe Hill's significance for all time, I believe, lies in his writing, in his person and in his songs a love of life and laughter with a serious determination to fight and die if need be, for a new world of peace and brotherhood."
John Henrick Clarke

SERIOUS COLLECTION OF INDIAN MATERIAL
THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN INDIAN IDENTITY: MODERN PANINDIAN MOVEMENTS. By Hazel W. Hertzberg. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York. 354 pages. $12.00.
The Search for An American Indian Identity by Hazel W. Hertzberg is the kind of history that shows both what is best in American historiography and what is worst. I rather think that when we mature to the point of truly scientific historiography, people will question why Hertzberg took so much time and good paper to resolve so little. It is true that the scholarship herein is factual and well documented. I would like to suggest that real scholarship is much more than a collection of well documented facts and figures. It should be hoped that real scholarship is that which will illuminate what was previously darkness. In this regard the book is in my judgment a failure. It came to no real conclusion or answer to the dilemma of the Native American in his search for a place in the twentieth century. The author has done a service in collecting data from which such answers may come but she provides no answers to her own questions. 
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