By R. David Edmunds
An fundamental advent to the wealthy number of local management within the sleek period, the recent Warriors profiles local women and men who've performed an important function within the affairs in their groups and of the kingdom over the process the 20th century. The leaders showcased contain the early-twentieth-century author and activist Zitkala-?a; American Indian circulation chief Russell capacity; political activists Ada Deer and LaDonna Harris; pupil and author 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 financial and cultural sovereignty for the Seminole Tribe of Florida; Cherokee leader Wilma Mankiller; Pawnee activist and legal professional Walter Echo-Hawk; Crow educator Janine Pease Pretty-on-Top; and Phillip Martin, a driver in the back of the magnificent monetary revitalization of the Mississippi Band of Choctaws.
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No one was killed or injured; the entire affair lasted less than four hours. The Cheyennes gained some booty from outlying white farms but had to pay for it out of annuities granted them in the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867. Like other young boys on the reservation, Charley was unaware of the events leading up to the attack. For him the minor attack was a harrowing experience; in later years he never wearied of relating the trying circumstances under which he returned to the home of his paternal grandparents in Topeka.
S. 11 Curtis’s initial election to Congress was a testament to his hand-shaking energy and skill in getting to know his constituents at a personal, human, level. He carried a book with the names, occupations, and personal relations of virtually every family in every township in the Kansas Fourth District, and his dramatic victory over the Populist candidate John G. Otis in the same year that Kansas supported Populist James B. Weaver for the 24 ✴ the new warriors presidency, attracted national attention.
One of the rationales she had given Montezuma for her decision to return to the reservation was that she would use the opportunity to gather more materials for her stories. Yet those stories never materialized after she went to Utah. While at Carlisle, and especially in Boston, the young ˇ had enjoyed a network of literary friends who supported her efZitkala-Sa forts to write about the Indian past. Publishing her stories had helped to alleviate the guilt she had felt at defying her mother and staying in the East.
