Böcker av Antoinette Nora Claypoole

This book is a mythological telling of memoir, based on true events that happened to the author in and around Dineh (Navajo) lands in Big Mountain, Arizona, USA. And within the "hippy" movement in the Pacific Northwest during the 1980's and 90's. Dineh (Navajo) asked rag tag hippies and the active environmental movement of the time, for help in their resistance to forced relocation by the U.S. Government. Hippies responded happily. Legends depicts their converging paths and the treacheries involved in demanding human rights for American Indian nations. Using both mythology and memoir the endnotes of this book help readers to learn about facts of Big Mountain resistance, and the overall landscape of white and Red worlds, meeting. The story weaves truths otherwise unseen. With Love, as the theme.

SECOND EDITION (2013) includes previously unpublished essays about the American Indian Movement (AIM) by antoinette nora claypoole, blog entries, radio broadcast notes, and news pieces written about the extradtion and triasl of John Graham, S. Tutchone. Ghost Rider Roads includes an interview with both Graham and the late Vernon Bellecourt founder/leader of the American Indian Movement. Many stories, interviews and essays found in the first edition of Ghost Rider Roads (still in print) remain in this nEw printing, including stories by the late Robert Robideau and writings about/by his cousin Leonard Peltier, Anishanabe American Indian and AIM political prisoner convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI agents on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Overall. Ghost Rider Roads chronicles the roots of AIM via news clips from old activist newspapers (Yippies Judy and Stew Albert), old stories by Robert Robideau (acquitted in the killing of two FBI agents in 1975) and moves into the controversy over the murder of Anna Mae Aquash (1945-1975/6). Ghost Rider Roads reveals the landscape of "Indian Country" from the 1970's to current day. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "Ghost Rider Roads is a highly comprehensive book of American Indian History. This work is a series of stories that are a brilliant, detailed, lively history of American Indians in their struggles to stay alive. A book for those who want to hear first-hand accounts of what has happened, and continues to happen, in Indian Country. Very powerful. antoinette nora claypoole sings the song she learned in her dreamtime." --Brian Frisina aka Raven Redbone producer/host Make No Bones About It, Olympia, Wa. Visit www.wildembers.com for more info.

Legends is a mythological telling of memoir, based on true events that happened to the author in and around Dineh (Navajo) lands in Big Mountain, Arizona, USA. And within the "hippy" movement in the Pacific Northwest during the 1980's and 90's. Dineh (Navajo) asked rag tag hippies and the active environmental movement of the time, for help in their resistance to forced relocation by the U.S. Government. Hippies responded happily. Legends depicts their converging paths and the treacheries involved in demanding human rights for American Indian nations. Using both mythology and memoir the endnotes of this book help readers to learn about facts of Big Mountain resistance, and the overall landscape of white and Red worlds, meeting. The story weaves truths otherwise unseen. With Love, as the theme. OF THIS BOOK donated to Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene, Ore. which assists varied groups protecting Mother Earth. (www.cldc.org). This book is a mythological telling of memoir, based on true events that happened to the author in and around Dineh (Navajo) lands in Arizona, USA. And within the "hippy" movement in the Pacific Northwest during the 1970's and 1980's. Dineh (Navajo) asked rag tag hippies and the active environmental movement of the time, for help in their resistance to forced relocation by the U.S. Government. Hippies responded happily. "Legends" depicts their converging paths and the treacheries involved in demanding human rights for American Indian nations. Using both mythology and memoir the endnotes of this book help readers to learn about facts of Big Mountain resistance, and the overall landscape of white and Red worlds, meeting. The story weaves truths otherwise unseen. With Love, as the theme.