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Born 1970.
EDUCATION:Liverpool John Moores University, B.A., 2004; University of Glasgow, M.Phil, 2005; University of Oklahoma, M.A., 2007, Ph.D., 2012.
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CAREER
Historian, educator, and writer. Velie & Velie Law Firm, Norman, OK, researcher, 2005-12; University of Oklahoma, Norman, instructor, 2009-12; St. Gregory’s University, Shawnee, OK, instructor in College for Continuing Studies, 2012-13; College of the Muscogee Nation, Okmulgee, OK, instructor, 2012-13; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, visiting assistant professor of American Indian studies, 2013-15; Montana State University-Northern, Havre, assistant professor of Native American Studies and history, 2015-. Also adjunct graduate studies instructor, Southern New Hampshire University, Hooksett.
WRITINGS
Contributor to periodicals, including American Indian Quarterly and Native Matters.
SIDELIGHTS
Historian Paul McKenzie-Jones specializes in Native Amrican studies. His research and teaching interests include the critical intersections of indigenous transnationalism; political, cultural, and environmental activism; race, settler-colonialism, appropriation, and erasure; and indigenous futures and cultural expression. His first book, Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power, is a biography of Native American activist and leader Clyde Warrior, who founded the National Indian Youth Council. He is also considered the ideological founder of the Red Power movement, a phrase coined by Warrior, who introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism.
Warrior was a leader in the Ponca, a midwestern Native American tribe of the Dhegihan branch of the Siouan language group. In his biography of Warrior, McKenzie-Jones makes the case that Warrior was among the most important figures in the battle for Indian rights in the 1960s. Writing in the book’s introduction, McKenzie-Jones calls Warrior “one of the most sagacious and influential activists of the Red Power movement.” McKenzie-Jones goes on to note that, in addition to primary sources, much of the biography is based on oral histories from family, friends, and colleagues who knew Warrior. McKenzie-Jones writes: “The text details the complexity of community, tradition, cultural immersion, and tribal identity that surrounded Warrior. It discusses how these issues combined to inform and influence him, his rhetoric, and his campaign for tribal cultural and political autonomy and self-determination.”
McKenzie-Jones begins by delving into Warrior’s Ponca upbringing. Raised in a traditional Ponca household, Warrior learned both the Ponca language and history. As a result, Ponca cultural themes and ideas formed the foundation of Warrior’s views and and how Warrior interpreted Red Power. The book goes on to detail Warrior’s early efforts at activism and fighting for Indian rights, including Warrior’s becoming a founding member and president of the National Indian Youth Council.
The book details how Warrior was at the forefront of a cultural and political reawakening within the Indian communities throughout the United States in the 1960s, using both harsh rhetoric and protests based on direct action. “Warrior was the first to introduce militant rhetoric into Indian affairs, as he condemned Anglo-Saxons as the ‘sewage of Europe,’ derided tribal leaders as ‘Uncle Tomahawks,’ and helped take the campaign against treaty abrogation to new levels through protest and director action,” McKenzie-Jones writes in Clyde Warrior. Mackenzie-Jones notes that Warrior and others within the Red Power movement also used Cold War rhetoric to their advantage. For example, when the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya against British occupation occurred, Warrior and other Indian allies referred to the uprising to illustrate the plight of Indians in America. The book also examines the connection between the Red Power and the Black Power movements, which emerged almost side by side.
Despite Warrior’s disdain for the whites who had taken over Indian lands and tried to destroy Indian culture, McKenzie-Jones stresses that Warrior was a cultural pluralist who considered himself an American as well as a Ponca. McKenzie-Jones also makes the case that Warrior’s death at age twenty-nine caused many of his achievements to be overshadowed, as well as Warrior’s keen intellect. For example, Warrior’s efforts in Indian education have largely been forgotten. He was a harsh critic of the educational system, noting that it was not unbiased or unprejudiced. According to Warrior, the system made Native American children even more invisible in a white society. Warrior would go on to help create curriculum models focused on strengthening tribal communities. According to McKenzie-Jones, these efforts were prescient in terms of the the tribally determined schools that were later created, as well as the institution of Native American studies on college campuses.
“In this account, McKenzie-Jones has carefully reconstructed a life and made sense of a time,” wrote C. Richard King in Journal of Southern History, adding: “In the process, he not only recovers an important historical figure too long forgotten but also offers a fuller understanding of a political movement, its unique origins, and its living legacy.” Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries contributor K.L. Ackley noted: “Warrior’s life provides a more nuanced view of the ways that the intertribal work was deeply reservation and community based.”
BIOCRIT
BOOKS
McKenzie-Jones, Paul R. Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 2015.
PERIODICALS
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, November, 2015, K.L. Ackley, review of Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power, p. 485.
Journal of Southern History, August, 2016, C. Richard King, review of Clyde Warrior, p. 724.
ONLINE
Montana State University-Northern Web site, http://montananorthern.academia.edu/ (March 26, 2017), author faculty profile.
Paul R. McKenzie-Jones LinkedIn Page, https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-mckenzie-jones-ph-d-1287bb2b (March 26, 2017).
Paul R. McKenzie-Jones Twitter Page, https://twitter.com/paulmcj (March 26, 2017).
Paul McKenzie-Jones
Montana State University Northern, Native American Research, Faculty Member
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Paul McKenzie-Jones is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies & History at Montana State University - Northern. McKenzie-Jones' research and teaching interests focus on the critical intersections of Indigenous transnationalism; political, cultural, and environmental, activism; race, settler-colonialism, appropriation, and erasure; and Indigenous futures and cultural expression.
His first book, "Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power" is a biography of Ponca activist Clyde Warrior, the ideological founder of Red Power. This biography is the first to recognize the full influence of Warrior on the seismic shift in federal Indian policy and American Indian self-determination that occurred in the late 20th century.
His current research project focusses upon the erasure of imposed North American settler-colonial borders through transnational Indigenous environmental, cultural, and political activism and nation (re)building.
Address: Native American Studies,
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Paul McKenzie-Jones
Montana State University Northern, Native American Research, Faculty Member
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Paul McKenzie-Jones, Ph.D
Native American Studies, Montana State University-Northern, PO Box 7751, 300 13
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E-Mail: paul.mckenziejones@msun.edu
Education
Ph.D. 2012. History – Twentieth Century United States and American Indian, University of Oklahoma. Dissertation: “Clyde Warrior’s Red Power: A Fresh Air of New Indian Idealism” MA 2006 History – Twentieth Century United States and American Indian, University of Oklahoma M.Phil 2005 American Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland B.A. 2004 American Studies/English Literature, Liverpool John Moores University, England
Experience
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Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, Montana State University-Northern, Havre, MT
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Adjunct Graduate Studies Instructor, Southern New Hampshire University
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Visiting Lecturer, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Instructor, College of the Muscogee Nation, Okmulgee, OK August 2015 – Present May 2016 - Present August 2013 – July 2015 August 2012 – May 2013
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Instructor, College of Continuing Studies, St. Gregory’s University, Shawnee, OK
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Mvskoke History Curriculum Committee/Researcher for Muscogee (Creek) Nation Chief of Staff August 2012 – May 2013 Aug 2012 – January 2013
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History
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Instructor, Department of Liberal Studies/Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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Researcher, Velie & Velie Law Firm, Norman OK January 2005 – May 2012 August 2007 – May 2012 June 2006 – January 2008
Publications
Books
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Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power,
University of Oklahoma Press (New Directions in Native American Studies) April 2015
Paul McKenzie-Jones, Ph.D
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Book Chapters
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#41 National Indian Youth Council & #42 Occupation of Alcatraz in
50 Events That Shaped American Indian History,
ABC-CLIO
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“Red Power: Expressions of Native Activism Through Powwow Song & Dance.” Co-authored book chapter with Dr. Paula Conlon in
Sounds of Resistance: The Rise of Music in Multicultural Activism
ABC-CLIO
ournal Articles
Forthcoming 2016 August 2013
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“Evolving Voices of Discontent: The Workshops on American Indian Affairs, 1956-1972.”
American Indian Quarterly
38.2
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“Cultural Activism in the Powwow Arena.”
Native Matters
1.1
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“We are among the poor, the powerless, the inexperienced and the inarticulate.” Clyde Warrior’s Campaign for a Greater Indian America.”
American Indian Quarterly
34.2
Book Reviews
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Review:
Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous American Since 1887
, Danial M. Cobb, University of North Carolina Press, 2015
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Review:
Gathering The Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity
, Christopher Wetzel, University of Oklahoma Press, 2015
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Review:
Kindred By Choice: Germans and American Indians Since 1800,
H.Glenn Penny, University of North Carolina Press, 2013
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Review:
Call For Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, & Reality,
Donald Fixico, University of Nebraska Press
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Review:
The National Council on Indian Opportunity
, Thomas A. Britten, University of New Mexico Press
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Review:
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States,
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Beacon Press Spring 2014 Spring 2012 Spring 2011
Forthcoming
: Journal of American History
Forthcoming
:NAIS
Forthcoming
AIQ
Forthcoming
AIQ Tribal College Journal 27.3, March 2016 Ethnohistory, 63.1, January 2016
Paul McKenzie-Jones, Ph.D
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Presentations
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Indigenous Land and Water Rights, Dakota Access, Standing Rock and State-Sponsored Violence in Service of Big Oil.” KNMC Radio 90.1 FM Interview
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“Sending a Sailor to Vietnam: The Ponca Singers Rejection of the Counterculture Myth of the New Age Indian,”
Western History Association, Minneapolis,
Minnesota
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“Same Fight, Different Tactics; Transnational Indigenous Pipeline Resistance and the rise of Social Media as a Weapon of Protest,”
NAISA Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i
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Clyde Warrior, Red Power, and the legacy of 1960s Indigenous Activism”
Invited Lecture, Portland State University
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“Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power”
Invited Public Lecture, University of Texas - Arlington
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“Removing Imagined Borders: American Indian and Canadian First Nations Activism from the Red Power Era to the Present Day.”
NAISA Annual Conference, Washington DC
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“Global Indigenous Activism: The contemporary legacy of Red Power and the Civil Rights era.”
Invited Lecture - MLK Week, University of Illinois
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“Re-Appraising Pan-Indianism,”
Annual Ethnohistory Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Clyde Warrior: Founder of the Red Power Movement,
NAISA Conference, Austin, Texas
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“Viewing Red Power as an Inter-Tribal movement”
Indigenous Research Symposium, Native American House, University of Illinois.
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“Culture, Community, and Tradition: Clyde Warrior’s Vision for the Red Power Movement.”
Native American House, University of Illinois.
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“Reclaiming Education for Themselves: Workshops on American Indian Affairs, 1956-1972.”
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Paul McKenzie-Jones, Ph.D
Paul McKenzie-Jones, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Montana State University-Northern.
Urbana, Illinois
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Montana State University-Northern
Previous
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of the Muscogee Nation, College for Continuing Studies, St. Gregory's University, Shawnee, OK
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University of Oklahoma
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Summary
Author of "Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power." (OU Press, April 2015)
My current research project examines issues of inter-tribal/trans-national North American indigenous nationalistic activism, grounded in tribal cultural traditionalism, from the Civil Rights era to the present.
My teaching interests include cultural traditionalism in modernity, North American indigenous expressive cultures, social movements and community revitalization since 1945, federal Indian law, and Native North American history.
Experience
Assistant Professor
Montana State University-Northern
August 2015 – Present (1 year 8 months)
Native American Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
June 2013 – August 2015 (2 years 3 months)
Teaching Intro to American Indian Studies, Indigenous Thinkers, and from Fall 2014, Red Power. These classes cover a wide range of topics, including, history, anthropology, cultural studies, colonialism, identity, education, federal law, treaty rights, expressive cultures, representation and appropriation, comparative indigenous cultures, self-determination, activism, intellectual and cultural sovereignty, contemporary issues, and more.
I have participated in forums on indigenous research and am part of the steering committee for a planned 2015 Symposium on Indigenous Sport.
Instructor
College of the Muscogee Nation
2012 – June 2013 (1 year)
Teaching the post-Civil War U.S survey class. Member of the Curriculum Committee designing a Muscogee (Creek) history course for all tribal employees. Research in contemporary Muscogee (Creek) history on behalf of the tribe's Chief of Staff.
Instructor
College for Continuing Studies, St. Gregory's University, Shawnee, OK
2012 – June 2013 (1 year)
Teaching the Economic History of the United States since 1776, and early Western Civilization surveys. Also member of several curriculum committees.
University of Oklahoma
ABD/Instructor
University of Oklahoma
January 2009 – May 2012 (3 years 5 months)
Split teaching responsibilities between the History Department and the Native American Studies program.
For the History Department I taught the post-1865 US survey, focusing on issues of race, gender, social movements, popular culture, and international relations.
For Native American Studies I taught two classes that I personally created - Powwow Culture and History, and Twentieth Century Activism.
Powwow Culture looked at the development of Plains Indian cultures from pre-reservation Warrior societies to the modern social aspect of Powwow culture and revival of tribal societies and ceremonial cultures. Other concepts discussed include appropriation and representation from early 19th century to the present day, and analyzing the difference between pan-Indianism and inter-tribalism.
Twentieth Century Activism discussed the evolution of protest from American Indian communities and organizations from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Issues discussed include treaty rights, Red Power, self-determination, assimilation, federal Indian law and contemporary issues.
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Causes Paul cares about:
Civil Rights and Social Action
Education
Environment
Human Rights
Publications
Evolving Voices of Discontent: The Workshops on American Indian Affairs, 1956 - 1972
American Indian Quarterly
April 2014
An analysis of the effects of the Workshops on American Indian Affairs in fermenting the growing discontent of young American Indians during the Civil Rights era, the creation of the red Power Movement, and the increasing clamour for a culturally relevant education.
Authors:
Paul McKenzie-Jones, Ph.D
Red Power: American Indian Activism Through Powwow Music and Dance
Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism
September 2013
This co-authored article discusses the role of music as a galvanizing force among American Indian resistance to European and American culture since European contact. The article specifically focusses on the importance of music in activism during the late twenty century fight for American Indian civil and treaty rights that was known as Red Power.
Authors:
Paul McKenzie-Jones, Ph.D, Paula Conlon, Ph.D
"We are among the poor, the powerless, the inexperienced and the inarticulate:" Clyde Warrior's campaign for a "Greater Indian America.""
American Indian Quarterly
June 2011
Article discussing the speeches and writings of Clyde Warrior, the architect of the Red Power Movement of American Indian Civil Rights activism in the 1960s.
Authors:
Paul McKenzie-Jones, Ph.D
Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power
April 2015
The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights.
The Red Power movement arose in reaction to centuries of oppressive federal oversight of American Indian peoples. It comprised an assortment of grassroots organizations that fought for treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, self-determination, cultural preservation, and cultural relevancy in education. A cofounder of the National Indian Youth Council, Warrior was among the movement’s most prominent spokespeople. Throughout the 1960s, he blazed a trail of cultural and political reawakening in Indian Country, using a combination of ultranationalistic rhetoric and direct action protest.
McKenzie-Jones uses interviews with some of Warrior’s closest associates to delineate the complexity of community, tradition, culture, and tribal identity that shaped Warrior’s activism. For too many years Red Power has been categorized as an American Indian interpretation of Black Power that emerged after his death. This groundbreaking book brings to light, however, previously unchronicled connections between Red Power and Black Power that show Warrior borrowed only the slogan as a metaphor for cultural and community integrity.
Descended from hereditary chiefs, Warrior was immersed in Ponca history and language from birth. McKenzie-Jones shows how this intimate experience, and the perspective gained from participating in powwows, summer workshops, and college Indian organizations, shaped Warrior’s intertribal approach to Indian affairs. This long-overdue biography explores how Clyde Warrior’s commitment to culture, community, and tradition formed the basis for his vision of Red Power.
Authors:
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University of Oklahoma
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), American Indian/United States History
2007 – 2012
Activities and Societies: President: History Graduate Student Association President: Phi Alpha Theta Recipient: Phi Alpha Theta John Pine Memorial Award for Dissertation Research, Morgan Dissertation Fellowship, Robberson Research Award, Bea Mantooth Estep Research Travel Grant, Graduate Student Research Fellow for Women's and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice.
University of Oklahoma
Master of Arts (MA), American Indian/United States History
2006 – 2007
Activities and Societies: President, Phi Alpha Theta President, History Graduate Student Association
The University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), American Studies
2004 – 2005
Activities and Societies: Recipient: Andrew F. Gordon Award for Scholarly Achievement in American Studies Arts and Humanities Research Board award for Graduate Studies
Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool John Moores University
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), American Studies/English Literature
2001 – 2004
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McKenzie-Jones, Paul R.: Clyde Warrior: tradition, community, and Red Power
K.L. Ackley
53.3 (Nov. 2015): p485.
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McKenzie-Jones, Paul R. Clyde Warrior: tradition, community, and Red Power. Oklahoma, 2015. 234p bibl index afp ISBN 9780806147055 cloth, $29.95
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This well-researched biography highlights the intellectual contributions of Clyde Warrior, co-founder of the National Indian Youth Movement and a leading indigenous activist of the late 20th century. Warrior, who died at the age of 29, is credited with coining the term Red Power, but his work to build upon the cultural foundations of tribal nations and create culturally appropriate curricula is less known. Warrior first achieved recognition as a Ponca student, singer, and dancer, and McKenzie-Jones (visiting lecturer, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) persuasively illustrates that these experiences were formative in Warrior's evolution as a leader. Red Power has been largely portrayed as a youthful, urban, pan-Indian political movement, but Warrior's life provides a more nuanced view of the ways that the intertribal work was deeply reservation and community based and led by elders. It is particularly welcome to learn about Warrior's critique of education models that purported to be color-blind and inclusive. Such models, Warrior argued, further heightened the invisibility of Native children. His work in creating curriculum models that built on the strengths of tribal communities anticipated the creation of tribally determined schools and Native American studies departments on college campuses. Summing Up: ** Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.--K. L. Ackley, The Evergreen State College
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Ackley, K.L. "McKenzie-Jones, Paul R.: Clyde Warrior: tradition, community, and Red Power." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Nov. 2015, p. 485. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA434319792&it=r&asid=e86dff1d08d03315b32b91881516e39a. Accessed 5 Mar. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A434319792
Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power
C. Richard King
82.3 (Aug. 2016): p724.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 Southern Historical Association
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Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power. By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Pp. xxii, 234. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-4705-5.)
Not infrequently, popular and even some scholarly accounts have offered a simplistic rendering of the political, social, and intellectual resurgence in Indian country after World War II, often encapsulating and equating it with the American Indian Movement and its telegenic leadership. In his new biography of Clyde Warrior, Paul R. McKenzie-Jones has offered a much-needed and welcome corrective.
Written in a readable style, this well-researched and well-rounded monograph tells the life story of a neglected political leader, while also offering a culturally relevant account of the broader movement for American Indian self-determination, its intellectual roots, and the context that animated it. In his short life, Warrior, a dynamic thinker, eloquent speaker, and charismatic leader, laid the foundation for and helped coin the phrase "Red Power." He cofounded the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), played a key role in indigenous activism in the 1960s, and spearheaded efforts to foster self-determination, reclaim treaty rights, and promote culturally grounded education. Sadly, he died from liver disease at the age of twenty-eight, yet he left a lasting imprint on indigenous politics.
McKenzie-Jones is not content to simply narrate a series of events. He also nicely highlights the experiences and traces the influences that shaped Warrior and his impact. First, McKenzie-Jones emphasizes the importance of Ponca culture, history, and identity, providing readers with a succinct introduction. Noting that Warrior was raised in accordance with traditional ways on the Ponca reservation and that he always foregrounded his tribal heritage and identity throughout his political career, McKenzie-Jones argues that this traditionalism made Warrior distinct. Second, McKenzie-Jones underscores the diverse encounters and exchanges of Warrior's youth. On the one hand, the author points to the ways that the intercultural spaces of Indian hobbyists and mainstream education informed Warrior's worldview. On the other hand, McKenzie-Jones directs attention to the centrality of intertribalism in Warrior's youth, especially the interface with other tribal communities and traditions, perhaps best exemplified by his rise to excellence on the powwow circuit. Third, McKenzie-Jones explores the formative significance of formal and informal interactions with other American Indians in the workshops, the organizations (notably the Southwest Regional Indian Youth Council, the forerunner of NIYC), and the political actions associated with the nascent movement. This unique nexus of influences proved pivotal to Warrior, according to McKenzie-Jones, and it laid the foundation for a Red Power movement that emerged well before the American Indian Movement and was also quite ideologically and politically distinct from other freedom struggles at the time, including the civil rights movement and Black Power.
In this account, McKenzie-Jones has carefully reconstructed a life and made sense of a time. In the process, he not only recovers an important historical figure too long forgotten but also offers a fuller understanding of a political movement, its unique origins, and its living legacy. That he did both with such respect and relevance ensures that the book will make a lasting contribution.
C. RICHARD KING
Washington State University
King, C. Richard
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
King, C. Richard. "Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power." Journal of Southern History, vol. 82, no. 3, 2016, p. 724+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA460447811&it=r&asid=b7486487d4ab152e16f7a427507898f5. Accessed 5 Mar. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A460447811