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Red Power Movement

How and why did the Red Power movement frame its demands in terms of international relations rather than in terms of civil rights?

The Red Power movement was one of the many civil rights movements that sprung out of the collective movements that originated in the United States throughout the 1950s through the 1970s. The American Indian Movement (AIM), also coined as the "Red Power" movement by author Vine Deloria Jr., was a movement that has several distinctions that can be made in regard to other movements of the time. One of the factors that separated this group from other groups that were demanding civil rights is that they were indignant to the land. Therefore, there claim to rights took more of an universal or comprehensive perspective since they shared similar experiences with indignant peoples from all over the world.

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This analysis will provide a brief overview of the Red Power movement and why they focused on international relations rather than just civil rights.

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There were two events that marker the highlights of the movement however these events would not have occurred without a social foundation that backed the movement. One major event in the Red Power movement was when a group who was affiliated with the Red Power movement tried to reclaim the deserted prison on Alcatraz Island which was referred to as Alcatraz. This island is in San Francisco Bay and used to belong to the Sioux tribe. There were about ninety people in the group who claimed that they were "Indians of All Tribes"; thus appealing to indigenous rights and not just civil rights. Although this group was unable to reclaim….....

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