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American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 18, Number 2, Spring 2003
- pp. 114-132
- 10.1353/hyp.2003.0021
- Article
- Additional Information
This article will focus on the role of women in three red power events: the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the Fish-in movement, and the occupation at Wounded Knee. Men held most public roles at Alcatraz and Wounded Knee, even though women were the numerical majority at Wounded Knee. Female elders played a significant role at Wounded Knee, where the occupation was originally their idea. In contrast to these two occupations, the public leaders of the Fish-in movement were women—not an untraditional role for women of Northwest Coastal tribes.