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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