Meanings
nounRed Power (uncountable)
- UShistoricaluncountableA social movement led by Native American youth to demand self-determination for Native Americans in the United States.
Once again—faced not with the religious fervor of the Ghost Dancers but with the political rage of the Red Power activists—the white establishment reacted with uncertainty, and a show of force.
1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin
Modeled after Black Power, 1960s.
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