Akwesasne Notes, 1972

Title

Akwesasne Notes, 1972

Subject

American Indian Movement

Description

Akwesasne Notes was a newspaper founded in 1969, amid a surge in Native American activism, by Ernest Benedict of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, which straddles the U.S. and Canadian border along the St. Lawrence River. The paper, which continued publication through the mid-1990s, became the largest and most influential Native American newspaper in the world. Editors explained the purpose of the newspaper: "Akwesasne Notes supports the efforts of people to re-investigate their own processes of survival - their culture. We are advocates of social justice processes which focus on reuniting people with their community and their land base, and which attempts to resist the exploitation of land, animal, water, and human beings." (volume 16, number 4)

Creator

Akwesasne Notes,

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

ca. 1972

Format

newspaper

Collection

Citation

Akwesasne Notes,, “Akwesasne Notes, 1972,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed October 4, 2024, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/873.

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