{"product_id":"bordertown-clashes-resource-wars-and-john-redhouse-9781945335273","title":"Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories in the Four Corners: The Turbulent 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the late summer of 1972 to the late summer of 1974, John Redhouse and many other Navajo and Indian rights activists threw all they had into mass movement organizing and direct action. And they were pretty good at it too in terms of effectiveness and impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the first-person and above all, with a collective spirit of generosity and witness, John Redhouse describes the hot temper of the times in the racist and exploitative border towns in the Four Corners area of the Southwest region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs John Redhouse says, \"Without the People, you have nothing. But back then, we had a lot of people WITH us.\" Yes, the Power of the People, the collective human spirit of the emerging local and regional Indian civil movement, thousands of us marching in the streets of Gallup and Farmington in northwestern New Mexico with our demands. A bold citizens arrest at city hall, a downtown street riot, burning images of enemy leaders in effigy. And more marches, demonstrations, and direct actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, though, there was that Spirit--that unbroken, unconquerable spirit--that moved us, that drove us, that led us. And that was just in the border towns. In that turbulent decade, there was also the rapidly rising and spreading with-the-people, on-the-land resistance struggles in the coal, uranium, and oil and gas fields, and in disputed territories in the San Juan and Black Mesa basins that were targeted for ethnic cleansing and mineral extraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBordertown Conflicts, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories in the Four Corners\u003c\/i\u003e brings readers to the enduring issues of the day, traced over half a century ago, where John Redhouse and many more were in the middle of a revolution that unfolds to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Redhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945335270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945335273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Common Notions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"John Redhouse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372274995455,"sku":"9781945335273","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b4539f1-9b5d-4098-ae13-fa06b02f2a01.jpg?v=1732725493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bordertown-clashes-resource-wars-and-john-redhouse-9781945335273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}