| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2 | The History Cooperative

*Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller*. By Sarah Eppler Janda. (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. x + 232 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00.)
Sarah Janda offers readers a much fuller understanding of American Indian women's extraordinary political activity. Her documentation of the contributions of American Indian feminists follows the drama of American Indian women's increased formal participation in mainstream, tribal, and feminist politics.	1
LaDonna Harris (Comanche) born in 1931, and Chief Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee) born in 1945, are two of the most important American Indian politicians in recent history. Harris was born within years of the passage of women's suffrage (1920) and the American Indian Citizenship Act (1924), which extended the vote to American Indians.	2
LaDonna Harris was the wife of Democratic senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma. As a politician's wife, Harris upheld a traditional female role, while she also challenged this role by her active public engagement in politics. Harris founded Americans for Indian Opportunity in 1970. In 1971, she was a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, along with other prominent feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Bella Abzug.	. . .

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