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    553. HIPPIES, COUNTERCULTURE, AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT

    553. HIPPIES, COUNTERCULTURE, AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT

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    Willie Hiatt

    Founded in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) initially addressed the needs of Native Americans displaced into cities by federal government programs. The initiative resonated with the 1960s counterculture, which saw Indians as authentic symbols of resistance against white, capitalist, middle-class conformism. As author Sherri Smith argued, “Hippies assumed Indians were spiritual, ecological, tribal, communal, genuine holdouts against American conformity, the ‘original long hairs.’” If their view of indigenous culture was superficial and facile, many hippies nonetheless became committed collaborators in a search for cultural, political, and spiritual liberation.


    1:00-3:00 p.m.

    1 Session

    Tuesday, May 19

    Fee:  $30

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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Winter/Spring 2026
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Tuesday, 1:00-3:00 PM
    Date(s)
    May 19, 2026