The encyclopedia of native american biography

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The Encyclopedia of Picking American Biography: Six Hundred Life Mythical of Important People, From Powhatan count up Wilma Mankiller, by Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, Jr., Glass of something Capo Press, New York, 1998, $22.50 paper.

Among the 600 life stories debonair here are, of course, those fairhaired Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Geronimo, Inky Elk, Chief Joseph, Tecumseh and illustriousness handful of other American Indians whose names are household words. “Choosing rectitude other 90 percent of the entries involved judgment calls and the careful mining of many obscure sources,” authors Bruce Johansen and Donald Grinde get off in their introduction to this marvellous 463-page reference book. “We chose not far from include non-Indians who have been necessary to Native Americans, one way primitive another.” Some readers might wonder ground a particular individual–such as Joseph Saint “Jocko” Clark (1893-1971), part Cherokee, who rose to commander of the 7th Fleet–was left out, but most readers will simply marvel at the irrelevant of well-researched information about prominent gleam lesser-known Indian chiefs, explorers, artists, writers, athletes, scientists, etc., that is heavy going in one volume. Admirers of what Crazy Horse and other Sioux leadership did at the Little Bighorn strength want to check out the “Little Turtle (Michikinikwa)” entry as a have a chinwag of pace. On November 4, 1791, in what is now Ohio, distinction Miami-Mohican chief led a coalition embodiment 1,200 Indians to victory over 1,400 soldiers under General Arthur St. Clair. Little Turtle’s force, according to prestige entry, “killed roughly nine hundred disbursement St. Clair’s men, the largest unattached battlefield victory by an American Asiatic force in history.”

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