Hank Adams

rdf:langString Hank Adams

rdf:langString Hank Adams

rdf:langString Hank Adams

rdf:langString Hank Adams

rdf:langString American Indian Visionary Award, 2006

rdf:langString Jefferson Award for Public Service, 1981

rdf:langString Henry Lyle Adams

rdf:langString tactician, strategist, and negotiator of several key events including the Boldt Decision

rdf:langString Native American rights activist

rdf:langString Yellow Eagle

rdf:langString Chapter 4: Activism and Red Power

rdf:langString Red Power as a form of activism was not something that the National Indian Youth Council originated in the 1960s. Every generation of Indian people has fought valiantly against what has been happening to them.

rdf:langString Indian Self Rule

rdf:langString Originally released 1971, digitally re-mastered by Salmon Defense, run time 1:00:05

rdf:langString Henry Lyle Adams (May 16, 1943 – December 21, 2020, Assiniboine-Sioux) was an American Native rights activist known as a successful strategist, tactician, and negotiator. He was instrumental in resolving several key conflicts between Native Americans and state and federal government officials after 1960. Born on a reservation in Montana and based in Washington state for much of his life, he participated in protests and negotiations in Washington, DC and Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Adams was instrumental in working to assert and protect Native American fishing and hunting rights on traditional territories free of state restrictions. He fostered change through protests and court challenges. The ruling in United States v. Washington (1974), known as the Boldt Decision, upheld by the United States Supreme Court (1979), reaffirmed native treaty fishing rights on ceded territory. It resulted in tribes becoming the co-managers of salmon and other fishing resources with the state of Washington, and reserving a portion of the annual harvest for them. Adams participated in the American Indian Movement, including its occupation of the Department of Interior Building in Washington, DC in 1972 and in the 71-day standoff of the Wounded Knee incident in 1973. In both cases Adams played important roles in negotiating peaceful resolutions of volatile situations. He continued his work to press for tribal sovereignty, as well as with tribes to restore the role of their elders. In 2006 he was honored with the 'American Indian Visionary Award' by Indian Country Today.

rdf:langString Yellow Eagle

rdf:langString Henry Lyle Adams