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Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Robert Warrior and I met for the first time in a West Village bar called VG's in 1990. All I knew about him was that he was an Osage journalist who had written a piece I happened to come across. It was pretty good, so I phoned him up. He was in New York finishing his degree; I worked for a foundation. We found lots of agreement on many things. And we both liked Mexican beer. Maybe we'd work together on a project sometime. But we both were busy, and it seemed more like a good idea than something that would actually happen. I left New York a year later, but we stayed in touch. Finally, at the end of 1991, tired of waiting for the book I hoped someone else would write, I suggested to Robert that we collaborate on just such a book. We wrote a proposal, sent it to an agent, who found a publisher. In the spring of 1992 we signed a contract. That part was unbelievably easy, and everything happened real fast. Robert and I thought we could finish it in a year; but it took three. Writing this book was probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

Indian militants have their way with the town of Custer, South Dakota (on fire in the background), on a snowy afternoon in February, 1973.

More on Hurricane:
Description | Table of Contents | Preface | Some Key Figures | Praise from Far and Wide | Transfiguration in the Homelands by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Indian Country Today | Like a Hurricane Cuts Through Haze, Chronicles American Indian Movement by Mark Trahant, Salt Lake City Tribune | Another Review by Mark Aamot, Seminole Tribune

LIKE A HURRICANE The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior. The New Press, New York, 1996. 343 pages, index, table of contents, 25 photos. 25.00 cloth (ISBN 1-56584-316-9) 14.95 paper (ISBN 1-56584-402-5). Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10110 (202) 354 5500; 800 233 4830 for orders.

Check out Robert Warrior's web page for more information on him and his excellent book Tribal Secrets, Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

	Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee Robert Warrior and I met for the first time in a West Village bar called VG's in 1990. All I knew about him was that he was an Osage journalist who had written a piece I happened to come across. It was pretty good, so I phoned him up. He was in New York finishing his degree; I worked for a foundation. We found lots of agreement on many things. And we both liked Mexican beer. Maybe we'd work together on a project sometime. But we both were busy, and it seemed more like a good idea than something that would actually happen. I left New York a year later, but we stayed in touch. Finally, at the end of 1991, tired of waiting for the book I hoped someone else would write, I suggested to Robert that we collaborate on just such a book. We wrote a proposal, sent it to an agent, who found a publisher. In the spring of 1992 we signed a contract. That part was unbelievably easy, and everything happened real fast. Robert and I thought we could finish it in a year; but it took three. Writing this book was probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Indian militants have their way with the town of Custer, South Dakota (on fire in the background), on a snowy afternoon in February, 1973.

More on Hurricane: Description \| Table of Contents \| Preface \| Some Key Figures \| Praise from Far and Wide \| Transfiguration in the Homelands by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Indian Country Today \| Like a Hurricane Cuts Through Haze, Chronicles American Indian Movement by Mark Trahant, Salt Lake City Tribune \| Another Review by Mark Aamot, Seminole Tribune
LIKE A HURRICANE The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior. The New Press, New York, 1996. 343 pages, index, table of contents, 25 photos. 25.00 cloth (ISBN 1-56584-316-9) 14.95 paper (ISBN 1-56584-402-5). Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10110 (202) 354 5500; 800 233 4830 for orders.
Check out Robert Warrior's web page for more information on him and his excellent book Tribal Secrets, Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1995).