| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller. By Sarah Eppler Janda. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. x, 232 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-372-2.)

Sarah Eppler Janda's book provides an interesting review of the personal and political lives of two American Indian leaders: LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller. Harris, a human rights activist who initially received media attention because she was the wife of Oklahoma senator Fred R. Harris, was later one of the founders and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO). Mankiller achieved media recognition when she was elected the deputy chief and then principal chief of the Cherokee nation. What makes Janda's book different from standard biographies is that she explains how each woman develops her own identity as a feminist, an American Indian, and a civil rights activist.

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