Alexie
Baum
Bellecourt
Ben Nighthorse
Campbell
Carlos
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Cobell
Cohen
Deloria
Echohawk
Eloise
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Fadden
Felix S.
Gage
Gorman
John E.
Jr.
L. Frank
Leonard
Lucas
Lyons
Mankiller
Matilda Joslyn
Montezuma
Oren R.
Peltier
Phil
R.C.
Ray
Sherman
Vernon
Vine
Wilma
Product details
- ISBN 9780313355547
- Weight: 851g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history.
Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans. Such treatments are rare, as most Native American biographies are historical (pre-1900) and cover familiar figures. Profiles collected here are written to be enjoyable as well as instructive, presented as examples of personal storytelling that should be savored not only for their factual content, but also for the humanity they evoke.
The book spotlights Native American lives in the United States and Canada, mainly after 1900, though a few older figures are included because their lives evoke strikingly modern themes. The author, an expert on all things Native American, knows (or knew) several of the people in the entries, adding a special vibrancy to the writing. Among those profiled are former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, activist Eloise Cobell, and controversial political prisoner Leonard Peltier, as well as writers, artists, and musicians. The compilation also includes non-Native Americans whose lives and careers impacted Indian life.
Bruce E. Johansen has been professor of communication and Native American studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha since 1982 and is the author of 32 books.
