The Longest Walk: Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, and the Rise of Red Power
By Marcus Hale Whitfield
Length4h 51m
About this audiobook
The word Congress chose in 1953 was "freed." A list of Indian nations, from the Menominee of Wisconsin to the Klamath of Oregon, would be "freed from Federal supervision and control," which meant terminated: treaty obligations closed out, tribal rolls shut, reservations broken up, hospitals and schools cut loose. The Menominee, whose sawmill and forest made them one of the few tribes that paid their own way, went to Washington to ask for time and were told the decision had already been made.
A generation that grew up in the wake of that policy, many of them in cities where the government had resettled their families, stopped asking. Some founded the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis in 1968. Others, calling themselves Indians of All Tribes, landed on Alcatraz in November 1969 and held the old prison for nineteen months. The Trail of Broken Treaties ended in the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972, and in February 1973 the seventy-one-day standoff at Wounded Knee began. The trials followed, and the self-determination laws of the 1970s, and in 1978 the Longest Walk from San Francisco to Washington. Every Thanksgiving, people cross to Alcatraz before dawn for a sunrise ceremony on the island.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Ledger and the Blanket
2Chapter 2: The Bay and the Rock
3Chapter 3: Minneapolis, 1968
4Chapter 4: The Trail of Broken Treaties
5Chapter 5: Wounded Knee, Day One
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6Chapter 6: Seventy-One Days
7Chapter 7: The Trials
8Chapter 8: The Long Walk to Washington
9Chapter 9: The Acts of Law
10Chapter 10: The Nations and the Movement
11Chapter 11: The Red Power Generation
12Chapter 12: What the Rock Remembers
13About the Author
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