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Red Power en · NOUN

Etymology

Modeled after Black Power, 1960s.

Meanings

  1. (US, historical, uncountable) A 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: