Indians' summer : a novel / by Nasnaga.

This book is the fourth in Harper & Row's Native American Publishing Program.

This book features black and white illustrations of Native American tools and a headdress.

This book contains a glossary of definitions for Algonquin and slang terms used throughout the book.

"The fictional story of an American Indian uprising in 1976 that grows out of the American Indian Movement's occupation of Wounded Knee during the American Bicentennial." - From online.

"The novel depicts a revolution called in 1976 by the Sioux, Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo and Mohawk, just before the bicentennial of United States independence. They declare their own independence and the nation of Anishinabe-Waki (Land of the People), and the Sioux take control of nuclear weapons aimed at the White House. James Mackay in the Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature describes the novel as 'one of the fullest literal explorations of Indian separatism, and one of the few books to envision a pan-Indian state.' Mackay also notes that the novel reflects the political activism of the 1970s." - From online.

"Indian's Summer is a warning, and quite possibly a prophecy. The date is July 4, 1976. The president of the United States is midway through his bicentennial address to the nation. Suddenly he is interrupted and told the army has just been fired upon-not by foreign military forces in Europe or Asia, but by American Indians in New Mexico. Simultaneously, the ambassador from India addresses a stunned meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. He reads a proclamation announcing the formation of the new confederated American Indian nation of Anishinabe-waki, the Land of the People, and then reads a declaration of war between the Anishinabe-waki and the government of the United States. What the president and generals first dismiss as a minor annoyance swiftly escalates into an ominous confrontation. The Third World governments join India in forming a worldwide coalition backing the new nation. The Mohawks, whose St. Regis reservation spans the St. Lawrence River, seal off the international seaway and with it much of the electrical power grid serving the northeastern United States and Canada. The Navajo switch off their huge Four Corners generating complex and instantly turn out the lights in Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix, and Tucson. The Sioux in the Dakota's capture enough Minuteman missiles to devastate the United States--with enough Air Force trained Indian technicians to use them. What happens next is a fast paced adventure combining tongue-in-cheek humor and taut drama with a serious message. 'Indian's Summer' tells us the American Indian Movement's occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 may have been only the opening skirmish in a brand new twentieth century Indian War. Americans should remember that in the summer of 1976, when one group of Americans as celebrating the 200th anniversary of the United States, a different group-the Native American people-will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Seventh Cavalry's annihilation at the Battle of Little Bighorn." - From the dust jacket.