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-ea; 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. R. David Edmunds is Watson Professor
of History at the University of Texas at Dallas. editor of American
Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity (Nebraska 1980), both
available in Bison Books editions.
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