Indian Lives: Essays on Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders
By L. G. Moses.
Description
It is often assumed that Native Americans live in two distinct worlds: one Indian and the other white. In this collection of biographical studies of eight American Indians, though, we see that in fact they live in just one world of great complexity that has challenged, sustained, and sometimes destroyed them. All the leaders profiled here struck different balances between their Indian identity and their work within the dominant white culture, and history and biography are combined to delineate that process. This book is an important contribution to American Indian studies and includes for t...
ISBN(s)
0826308155, 9780826308153
