LGM Podcast: Richard Oakes and Native Liberation
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For today’s podcast, I interviewed Kent Blansett, Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History at the University of Kansas, on his book Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement. It’s a great book on one of the most important justice leaders of the 1960s and 1970s, someone who has largely been forgotten about by the non-Native population. We talk about Oakes, the history of urban Indians, the rise of Red Power, what the Alcatraz occupation meant, and Oakes’ assassination by a racist white, who of course never served a day in prison for it. Check it out!
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