Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement - Hardcover

Stern, Kenneth S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080612587X ISBN 13: 9780806125879

Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Stern was a first-year law student in 1975 when the arrest was made of six leaders of the American Indian Movement, Kenny Loud Hawk among them. The case did not end until 1988, Stern having appeared as lead counsel before the US Supreme Court in 1985. He dramatically tells the story of the longest pretrial case in US history. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth S. Stern's Loud Hawk won the 1995 Gustavus Myers Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Stidy of Human Rights in North America. Kenneth S. Stern is also the author of A Force upon the Plain; The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate and Holocaust Denial.

From Library Journal:

The author, now with the American Jewish Committee, was involved with the criminal case United States v. Loud Hawk , first as a student volunteer for the defense attorneys and later as lead counsel before the U.S. Supreme Court. Here he offers an account of the case, which arose from armed conflicts at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, in 1973. The case began in Portland, Oregon, in 1975 with the indictment of six members of the American Indian Movement and ended 13 years later without going to trial. The author relates government allegations and defendants' countercharges, describing the fear, official misconduct, bigotry, and paranoia surrounding the case--reminders that government/Indian conflicts continue. Stern's autobiographical subtheme sometimes undermines the book's focus. Recommended for Native American collections.
- Margaret W. Norton, Montay Coll. Lib., Chicago
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 080612587X
• ISBN 13: 9780806125879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 373