"Like a Hurricane" research collection

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4ac47da97-a77c-41f0-9b7f-57a3427e0931

Creator

Smith, Paul Chaat

Warrior, Robert Allen

Names

American Indian Movement

Former owner

American Indian Press Association

Names

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

Adams, Henry, 1943-2020

Banks, Dennis

Bellecourt, Vernon

Brave, Regina

Brightman, Lehman, 1930- 2017

Brown, Gerald Leroy, 1940-2023

Bush, Mitchell L., 1936-2018

Castillo, Edward D.

Chavis, Donna

Cooday, Jesse, 1955-

Ellenwood, Gladys P., 1932-1999

English, Sam

Garcia, Anthony

Jemison, G. Peter

Jennings, Dennis Robert, 1945-2022

Kilberg, Barbara G. (Barbara Greene), 1944-

La Garde, Richard, 1948-1994

Means, Russell, 1939-

Nahwooksy, Clydia, 1933-2009

Nahwooksy, Reaves F., Rev. Dr.

Patterson, Bradley Hawkes, Jr.

Quitiquit, Denise Ann, 1950-2018

Quitiquit, Luwana, 1941-2011

Redcorn, Jeri, 1939-

Robertson, Robert, 1929-2019

Robinson, Rose, 1932-1995

Thorpe, Grace F.

Tilsen, Kenneth E. , 1927-2013

Trimble, Charles E.

Trudell, John

Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934-

War Jack, LaNada

Warrior, Clyde, 1939-1968

Wax, Murray Lionel, 1922-

Wesaw, Colin

Whitebear, Bernie

Youpee, Darrell, 1951-2021

Place

Wounded Knee (S.D.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1973

Topic

Oral history

Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1969-1971.

Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972

Provenance

Gift of Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior, 2023.

Creator

Smith, Paul Chaat

Warrior, Robert Allen

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"Like a Hurricane" research collection

Summary

This collection contains reference materials used by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior while writing "Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee."

Paul Chaat Smith

Paul Chaat Smith is a Comanche author, essayist, and curator. His books and exhibitions focus on the contemporary landscape of American Indian politics and culture. With Robert Warrior, he is the author of "Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee" (New Press, 1996), a standard text in Native studies and American history courses. His second book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, was published in 2009 by the University of Minnesota Press. Smith's twenty-three-year tenure as a Smithsonian curator has spanned the development of the NMAI's inaugural history exhibition, a string of popular and influential contemporary Native art shows, and the forthcoming traveling version of 2018's renowned Americans. He delivered the Distinguished Critic Lecture of the Association of International Art Critics in 2017, and in 2024 was awarded the Tony Horwitz Prize for "distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance." Smith has lectured widely at museums and universities across the United States, as well as Copenhagen, Belo Horizonte, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Montreal. In March 2023, he toured New Zealand as a representative of the US State Department's Art in Embassies program. Smith lives in Baltimore. His middle name is pronounced "chot," and rhymes with hot. He has no college or university degrees. (Provided by Paul Chaat Smith, 2024)

Robert Allen Warrior

Robert Allen Warrior (Osage, 1963-) was born in Kansas and began writing at sixteen years old. As a graduate student he dedicated himself to journalism on Native issues. He went on to be a history professor and helped found the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. He co-wrote "Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee" (New Press, 1996) with Paul Chaat Smith. He has written extensively on native issues and received multiple awards for his work.

Extent

2.2 Linear feet

93 Photographic prints

89 Sound cassettes

1 Videocassettes (VHS)

Date

1961-1996

Archival Repository

National Museum of the American Indian

Identifier

NMAI.AC.448

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Sound cassettes

Videocassettes (vhs)

Newspaper clippings

Audio cassettes

Vhs (videotape format)

Manuscript

Federal government records

Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); "Like a Hurricane" research collection, NMAI.AC.448; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in three series by subject matter. Series 1: Primary Source Recordings, 1966-1994, includes Subseries 1.1: Interviews and Transcript and Subseries 1.2: Event and Broadcast Subseries 1.1 is arranged alphabetically. Subseries 1.2 is arranged chronologically. Series 2: Book Materials, 1964-1995, is arranged chronologically. Series 3: Research, 1961-1996, includes Subseries 3.1: Published sources and Subseries 3.2: Archival Research. Both subseries are organized chronologically.

Rights

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

Genre/Form

Newspaper clippings

Audio cassettes

VHS (videotape format)

Manuscript

Federal government records

Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials used by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior to write their book "Like a Hurricane." Series 1 contains interview schedules and notes as well as audio recordings of interviews with AIM leaders, activists, government officials, and others who witnessed or were involved with the events covered in "Like a Hurricane." It also contains recordings of broadcast and event audio from the Alcatraz occupation, the wounded knee occupation, the National Congress of the American Indians, and the Trail of Broken Treaties. Series 2 contains historical timelines of the events in "Like A Hurricane," book notes, and chapter drafts. Correspondence between Paul Chaat Smith, Robert Allen Warrior, and their publisher is also included. Series 3 contains source lists, newspaper clippings from many sources including the American Indian Press Association, and photographs of AIM leaders as well as materials copied from federal archives including the Hoover Institution, Nixon Project, and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Restrictions

Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Related Materials

American Indian Movement photograph collection, NMAI.AC.449 Peter Davis photographs from Wounded Knee, NMAI.AC.420

Record ID

ebl-1725563700739-1725563701560-0