73697X1 University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2002. 384 pages. Softcover. Brand new book. Loud Hawk: The United States versus the American Indian Movement is the story of a criminal case that began with the arrest of six members of the American Indian Movement in Portland, Oregon, in 1975. The case did not end until 1988, after thirteen years of pretrial litigaion. It stands as the longest pretrial case in U.S. history. This is a dramatic story of people and of government abuse of the legal system, of judicial courage and bone-chilling bigotry. It is an insider's view of the legal process and of the conditions in Indian country that led up to and followed Wounded Knee. Kenneth S. Stern's Loud Hawk won the 1995 Gustavus Myers Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America. Kenneth S. Stern is also the author of A Force upon the Plain; The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate and Holocaust Denial. "Éan invaluable resource for anyone interested in the historic aspect of the AIM trials, legal procedure, human rights and civil liberties. It is a first-hand oral history of the events supported by documented evidence that should give it academic meritÉ" - Indian Country Today "The legal events described in this book are a powerful indictment against the very agencies of the federal government charged with administering equal justice to all citizens." - Tulsa World $19.95USD
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