Writing 1968: A Native American Perspective on the Nineteen-Sixties

Authors

  • Vincent Veerbeek Radboud University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2612-5641/3182

Keywords:

Vietnam war, Civil rights, Black Power, Native Americans Studies, Vine Deloria, 1968

Abstract

One feature of United States public memory is the way in which it tends to neglect the Native American perspective on mainstream American history, regardless of their involvement. This holds true even for the nineteen-sixties, a decade that is generally seen as multi-faceted. Even if there are countless established memories of this well-remembered decade, however, the Native American narrative is not one of them. Using Vine Deloria’s Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) and We Talk, You Listen (1970), this paper will explore Native American understandings of the Vietnam War and the African American freedom struggle. Both were focal points of division in United States society at the time and have since come to define public memory of the nineteensixties, but are rarely considered from a Native American perspective.

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Published

2019-12-30

Issue

No. 2 (2019): Rethinking 1968 and the Global Sixties

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