ABSTRACT

The historical mapping of the Red Power movement is dominated by a handful of monumental events, and the intervening Native activism is often overshadowed by these summits. This article seeks to reveal the lost contours of the landscape and to rethink the ‘classic’ Red Power narrative. It argues that the lesser-known events and activism had a distinctively performative element to them that, in turn, was comprised of two strands: the first was a critical engagement with sites or symbols of national identity-making and, by extension, with narratives and ideas of patriotism. Secondly, such acts were often animated by a playful and ironic sense of humour. Merging a discussion of this performative rhetoric with analyses of events that have often sat in the shadows of the peaks of the struggle – the plan to occupy Ellis Island, protests at Mount Rushmore, the plan to take the Statue of Liberty ‘hostage’, and protests such as the 1976 Trail of Self-Determination – uncovers a much richer, nuanced and complicated ideological engagement with Red Power activism that is largely absent from current scholarship.

摘要

红色力量运动的历史地图主要由少数重大事件主导，而介入的土著激进主义常常被这些首脑会议所掩盖。本文旨在揭示景观丢失的轮廓，并重新思考“经典”的“红色力量”叙事。它认为，鲜为人知的事件和行动主义对他们而言具有独特的表演元素，而表演和元素又由两部分组成：第一部分是与民族身份认同的场所或象征的批判性接触，以及由此延伸的叙述性内容。和爱国主义的思想。其次，这种行为常常被一种幽默和讽刺的幽默感所激发。将对这种表演性修辞的讨论与对经常处于斗争高峰阴影中的事件的分析结合在一起-占领埃利斯岛的计划，