| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1 | The History Cooperative

*Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist*. By Woody Kipp. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 157 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95, £18.95.)
Woody Kipp's gripping story of his journey from his Pikuni Blackfeet childhood in Montana to Vietnam and thence home to a life of activism—both as a student militant with the American Indian Movement and subsequently as an English instructor at Blackfeet Community College—takes us along on a complicated, yet inspiring and humorous, journey. In quiet, understated prose, Kipp narrates sometimes harrowing, sometimes beautiful, stories of his life, beginning with his childhood, when he learned the Blackfeet way of life from his adoptive parents as well as the overculture's racialized way of life. Many of his subsequent difficulties (in school, particularly) and his pleasure in reading will be familiar to Indian readers.	1
From Cut Bank, Montana, Kipp followed generations of Indian youth, straight into the Marines. Many Indian veterans will recognize Kipp's post-war experience: "It would take decades for me to comprehend the strange, deranged, and evil things that transpired in the name of justice and democracy when I was in Vietnam" (p. 33).	. . .

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