Indian Chiefs
by Russell Freedman
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Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their grounds.Tags
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This book is so thorough in its layout and organization that you are able to see the physical differences between people of different regional tribes. The writing helps us to understand and remember the atrocities and lies whites committed against these people. It also documents their bravery and struggle against this oppression. HELPFUL IN A UNIT ON INDIANS, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRECOLUMBUS HISTORY, WEST'S HISTORY OR SOCIAL JUSTICE.
This book covers different, important Indian chiefs including Chief Joseph and Sitting Bull. Biographical information on each chief includes their childhood and how they came to be chief. Also information about their tribe's history, geography, and wars they took part in with other tribes and whites.
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The story of how the West was lost is told through the biographies of six chiefs who were faced with the effects of European westward expansion: Red Cloud (Oglala Sioux), Satanta (Kiowa), Quanah Parker (Comanche), Washakie (Shoshone), Joseph (Nez Perce), and Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Sioux). Whether the chiefs cooperated or resisted, the end result was the same in all cases---dispossession and show more removal to reservations. … This useful reference book is well-illustrated with good archival photographs. show less
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Russell Freedman was born in San Francisco, California on October 11, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951. After college, he served in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps during the Korean War. After his military service, he became a reporter and editor with the Associated Press. In show more 1956, he took a position at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in New York, where he did publicity writing for television. In 1965, he became a full-time writer. His first book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. He went on to publish more than 60 nonfiction titles for young readers including Immigrant Kids, Cowboys of the Old West, Indian Chiefs, Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life, Confucius: The Golden Rule, Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America, Vietnam: A History of the War, and The Sinking of the Vasa. He received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography and three Newbery Honors for Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, and The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. He also received the Regina Medal, the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award, the Orbis Pictus Award, the Sibert Medal, a Sibert Honor, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the National Humanities Medal. He died on March 16, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Red Cloud; Satanta; Quanah Parker; Washakie; Chief Joseph; Sitting Bull
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- English, German, Spanish
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