Do we Love the Vietnamese More than our Black Brothers?By Carol Wallace On July 18th I sat-in at Newark City Hall, middle of the floor; dialogued gently with all comers including rifle-toting cops; got off pretty nicely to a bloodlined paddy wagon; was released at the police station and offered bus fare to go home […] Continue reading →

Nashville Protests Against Repression of Black Community (1968) NASHVILLE, Tenn. – People here are taking the offensive against attempts to repress the black community-and the power structure is backing down. Police rampaged through the ghetto for a week in late January, supposedly looking for some men who had killed a policeman (see February Patriot). Their […] Continue reading →

The Young Lords (1970) A group of revolutionary Puerto Rican youths have occupied a church in El Barrio, New York City’s Puerto Rican ghetto. They have renamed the church La Iglezia de la Gente-People’s Church. Until last Sunday, this church only opened a few days a week for services, but now the people of the […] Continue reading →

Letter From a Navajo Indian to the U.S. ArmyBy Raymond Beletso Dear Mr. D. D. Spahr:This letter is in answer to the two notices or Questionnaires you have sent to me in the last 6 weeks, this last one, day before yesterday. I am filling out this last one and returning it to you today. […] Continue reading →

Native American Speaks Out About Poverty (1965)By Clyde Warrior The American Indian situation is a condensed and distilled version of the state of the union. The problems of American Indians are the result of bureaucratic behavior, of dehumanized interaction, of intellectuals defining the System. In January of this year the National Indian Youth Council submitted […] Continue reading →

Rolling Thunder Speaks Out on Native ActivismBy Marvin Garson They’ve pushed the Indian far enough, says Rolling Thunder. We’re not going to pay any more taxes, and we’re not going to give up any more land. Rolling Thunder is a Shoshone Indian from Carlin, Nevada. He is a lawyer and a warrior. He gives the […] Continue reading →

Native American Anarchists (1965)Book Reviews by D’Arcy McNickle THE LOST UNIVERSE. By Gene Weltfish. Basic Books. 506 pp.THE LONG DEATH: The Last Days of the Plains Indians. By Ralph K.Andrist, The Macmillian Co. 371 pp. As to the question of posting sentinels to guard against surprise attacks, Dr. Weltfish suggestively writes that they were a […] Continue reading →

Native American TimeBy John Collier The recent death of John Collier, who was best known for his service as U.S. Commissioner for Indian Affairs from 1933 to 1945, came as a shock to me. This may seem an extraordinary thing to write of a man of 84 living in very modest retirement in Ranchos de […] Continue reading →

Editor’s Note: This was part of an advertisement to obtain info for a Yippie Survival manual. Abbie Hoffman ended up including the input in his Steal This Book!HOW TO MAKE $80 and not sell grit 1) Do you know of any hustles, ways to cheat or fuck the telephone companies, airlines, General Motors, government, Jackie […] Continue reading →

Native Americans Fight Back!By Robert D. Casey The fall fishing season here in the state of Washington opened with an almost inevitable confrontation between the Indian tribes, who were exercising their Treaty rights to earn a living by fishing their rivers, and the State, which is attempting to regulate this troublesome ethnic minority out of […] Continue reading →