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Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary

Editat de Bruce E. Johansen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 iun 2010
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313355547
ISBN-10: 0313355541
Pagini: 340
Ilustrații: 54 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

List of Entries
Preface
Introduction
Individuals by Field of Endeavor
Individuals by Nationality
Native Americans Today
Selected Bibliography
About the Author and Contributors
Index

Recenzii

Johansen helps history come alive for a number of individuals about whom we might know very little, if anything. He gives the reader titles of books where more in-depth information can be found in such fields as literature and religious themes. This book provides an introduction to Native Americans who have made significant contributions in a number of fields and whets the appetite of the reader to find out more.
This volume is best suited to readers in high school, public, and college libraries as an introduction to the persons represented.