Barker, Rodney
Broken circle A True Story of Murder and Magic In Indian Country The broken circle Rodney Barker - New York Simon & Schuster 1992 - 367 p.
The chokecherry massacre
Thunder in navajoland
Red powers of darkness
Broken Circle recounts “The Chokecherry Massacre,” in which three New Mexico high-school students were charged with the murder of two Navajo Indian men, causing a violent, racial street riot that prompted the governor to call out the National Guard.
The tensions between whites and Native Americans reached a high in the town of Farmington, New Mexico when three white high school students brutally tortured and killed helpless victims from the neighboring Navajo reservation.
As the town erupted into a violent, racial street riot and the courts went easy on the sentencing of the high school boys, Barker tells how Navajo militants sought out justice for years of injustice and oppression in response.
An illuminating work of contemporary history, The Broken Circle reveals both sides of a dramatic and painful conflict and a turning point in the struggle for Native American rights.
0671741462 9780804111478
Murder --New Mexico--San Juan County
Hate Crime
Navajo Crimes
Southwest
364.1 Bar 42
Broken circle A True Story of Murder and Magic In Indian Country The broken circle Rodney Barker - New York Simon & Schuster 1992 - 367 p.
The chokecherry massacre
Thunder in navajoland
Red powers of darkness
Broken Circle recounts “The Chokecherry Massacre,” in which three New Mexico high-school students were charged with the murder of two Navajo Indian men, causing a violent, racial street riot that prompted the governor to call out the National Guard.
The tensions between whites and Native Americans reached a high in the town of Farmington, New Mexico when three white high school students brutally tortured and killed helpless victims from the neighboring Navajo reservation.
As the town erupted into a violent, racial street riot and the courts went easy on the sentencing of the high school boys, Barker tells how Navajo militants sought out justice for years of injustice and oppression in response.
An illuminating work of contemporary history, The Broken Circle reveals both sides of a dramatic and painful conflict and a turning point in the struggle for Native American rights.
0671741462 9780804111478
Murder --New Mexico--San Juan County
Hate Crime
Navajo Crimes
Southwest
364.1 Bar 42