R. David Edmunds

The New Warriors

Native American Leaders Since 1900
Herausgeber: Edmunds, R David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An indispensable introduction to the rich variety of Native leadership in the modern era, "The New Warriors" profiles Native men and women who have played a significant role in the affairs of their communities and of the nation over the course of the twentieth century. The leaders showcased include the early-twentieth-century writer and activist Zitkala-Sa; American Indian Movement leader Russell Means; political activists Ada Deer and LaDonna Harris; scholar and writer D'Arcy McNickle; orator and Crow Reservation superintendent Robert Yellowtail; U.S. Senators Charles Curtis and Ben Nighthorse Campbell; Episcopal priest Vine V. Deloria Sr.; Howard Tommie, the champion of economic and cultural sovereignty for the Seminole Tribe of Florida; Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller; Pawnee activist and lawyer Walter Echo-Hawk; Crow educator Janine Pease Pretty-on-Top; and Phillip Martin, a driving force behind the spectacular economic revitalization of the Mississippi Band of Choctaws.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780803267510
• ISBN-10: 0803267517
• Artikelnr.: 21161298

Autorenporträt

R. David Edmunds is Watson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of several works, including The Shawnee Prophet , and the editor of American Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity (Nebraska 1980), both available in Bison Books editions.