From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie: The Alliance for Sovereignty Between American Indians and Central Europeans in the Late Cold War

Tóth, György Ferenc

ISBN 10: 1438461224 / ISBN 13: 9781438461229

Published by State Univ of New York Pr, 2017

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313 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie: The Alliance for Sovereignty Between American Indians and Central Europeans in the Late Cold War
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438461224
• ISBN 13: 9781438461229
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.47 kilograms

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Synopsis

A historical analysis of the transatlantic relations of the American Indian radical sovereignty movement of the late Cold War.

From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie examines the history of the transatlantic alliance between American Indian sovereignty activists and Central European solidarity groups, and their entry into the United Nations in the 1970s and 1980s. In the late Cold War, Native American activists engaged in transnational diplomacy for nation building by putting outside pressure on the US government for a more progressive Indian policy that reached for the full decolonization of Native American communities into independence. By using extensive multinational archival research complemented by interviews, György Ferenc Tóth investigates how older transatlantic images of American Indians influenced the alliance between Native activists and Central European groups, how this coalition developed and functioned, and how the US government and the regimes of the Eastern Bloc responded to this transatlantic alliance. This book not only places the American Indian radical sovereignty movement in an international context, but also recasts it as a transnational struggle, thus connecting domestic US social and political history to the history of Cold War transatlantic relations and global movements.

About the Author

György Ferenc Tóth is Lecturer of US History and Transatlantic Relations at the University of Stirling in Scotland.