| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

The New Warriors: Native American Leaders since 1900. Edited by R. David Edmunds. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 346 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $35.00; £24.95.)

Ever since Plutarch wrote short biographies, the genre has been a part of the canon of history in the western world. Volumes of such biographies can be found from a wide variety of movements and political organizations. Most of us use these works as reference tools. One should read the volume here reviewed from cover to cover. The personalities and movements represented give insight into the American Indian experience in the twentieth century. 1

R. David Edmunds has arranged fourteen essays about Native American leaders representing a wide diversity of tribes and talents. The dominant theme of the book is political struggle. Given the experience of the tribes in the past century, this is to be expected. A valuable contribution is the insight that is displayed in local politics. In the essays on Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee), Howard Tommie (Seminole), Philip Martin (Mississippi Choctaw), and Robert Yellowtail and Janine Pease Pretty-on-Top (Crow) show in some detail the complex, difficult, and often destructive force of the local political battles that have been a part of tribal life. While this political syndrome may be no more intense than the political contests in general American society, the struggles seem greater because the system of politics may not yet be fully integrated into tribal societies. . . .

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