Loud Hawk: The United States versus the American Indian Movement

by Kenneth S. Stern

Loud The United States versus the American Indian Movement is the story of a criminal case that began with the arrest of six members of the American Indian Movement in Portland, Oregon, in 1975. The case did not end until 1988, after thirteen years of pretrial litigaion. It stands as the longest pretrial case in U.S. history. This is a dramatic story of people and of government abuse of the legal system, of judicial courage and bone-chilling bigotry. It is an insider’s view of the legal process and of the conditions in Indian country that led up to and followed Wounded Knee.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Indigenous, Law

384 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1994

About the author

Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. An attorney and award-winning author, he was the American Jewish Committee's expert on antisemitism for 25 years. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before Congress (as well as before committees of parliamentarians in Canada and the U.K.), was an invited presenter at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes, served as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Stockholm Forum on Combating Intolerance, and was a part of the defense team supporting Dr. Deborah Lipstadt in her historic London Holocaust denial trial. Stern was also trial and appellate counsel for American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks. Mr. Stern's op-eds and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Guardian, the Forward and elsewhere. Mr. Stern has appeared on the CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Dateline, Nightline, Face the Nation, the History Channel, NPR, and many other television and radio programs. He was also the lead drafter of the "working definition" of antisemitism.

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent and a must read if you want to know TRUE American history.

[Margaret Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

So interesting to read Ken's book again. What an important case and what great legal work!

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

INteresting account of historical events.