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December, 2005
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The New Warriors
Native American Leaders since 1900

Edited by R. David Edmunds
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. 346. Notes, illustrations, index. $35.00.)

R. David Edmunds's American Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity (1980) has long been a staple in the field of nineteenth-century American Indian biography. Now, Edmunds has edited a follow-up collection that focuses exclusively on twentieth-century figures. The New Warriors illustrates both the continuing effectiveness of the biographical form and the development of the field of twentieth-century American Indian history since the release of his earlier collection. 1
      Not that long ago, American Indian history seemed to end at the dawn of the twentieth century, as the battles fought by warriors like Sitting Bull against the U.S. Army drew to a close and most Indian people were hemmed in on reservations. The "Indian problem" spoken of by government officials was over and, apparently, so was Indian history. Edmunds's contributors remind readers that much Indian history remained to be made into the twentieth century. . . .
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