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This edition features Leslie Marmon Silko's "Storyteller". ... Read more

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ISBN 0938410067. 74 pp. ... Read more

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This collection of essays by Native American authors reflects contemporary Indian life viewed from the Native perspective. They provide an intimate look at the thoughts, feelings and realities of present day American Indians. The essays cover complex issues such as identity, family, community, faith and the continued existence of the People. Musical accompaniment is provided by Lorenzo Baca. ... Read more

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The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation tells the story of her life and the history of her people in this deeply moving autobiography. "As one woman's journey, Mankiller opens the heart. As a history of a people, it informs the mind."--Gloria Steinem. 2 cassettes. ... Read more

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Wilma Mankiller - remarkable woman of great inspiration
This is an inspirational story for all women to read - I do think the description of the book is the bit misleading.The first half of the book gives great deatail of the historical situation of the Cherokee people.Certainly our ethinic background has an impact on defining us, but I feel the author had a good deal more to tell us about her life in the present without digging back several centuries.It is a powerful book but not in my mind a true autobiography.

A Leader of Peoples
This rewarding tome from Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995, alternates between her autobiography and a tribal history. The book's structure is often awkward, but we get more than just the instructive story of a courageous woman who rose to be a great leader among her people. Most rewarding is a crucial recent history of Native Americans and their modern struggles, which are rarely covered in more anthropological histories. Especially stirring are Mankiller's coverage of yet another disastrous federal relocation program for Indians in the 1950s, and unique perspectives on internal Cherokee politics. There are a few problems with this book, such as when Mankiller tries to deliver a social history of her coming-of-age in the late 1960s but keeps falling into thin baby boomer nostalgia, while she mostly avoids several controversies that developed during her term in office (which are covered in-depth in other sources). The tail end of the book also devolves into attempts at inspirational self-help platitudes. But Wilma Mankiller emerges here as a strong human being who overcame great personal struggles to become an effective leader, and her perspectives on the challenges faced by her people are essential reading for any concerned American. [~doomsdayer520~]

The Cherokee Nation
To me this is an excellent purchase. I can relate to many of the author's passages from the time she resided in California, memories of same have been brought to mind, in a positive sense.

Wilma Mankiller
For anyone interested in Native American History this is an excellent book.The book chronicles the life of the former Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller during times of political Native American activism and the fight of not only Cherokee people, but Native Americans as a whole during her lifetime.It is candid about the struggles Native Americans faced due to government programs of relocation and the struggle to make it in the white world while maintaining their Indian heritage and culture.In addition to providing a detailed account of Mankiller's life, the book gives a detailed account of the history of the Cherokee Nation and their struggles with removal, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, oppressive legislation, and issues faced on reservations.

Boring and Hypocritical Read
This book was horrendous. She is an ultra-sensitive cry baby who can't move on with her life. Aside from her life which literally has almost no accomplishments, the history of the Cherokees is just as boring. She rambles on and on about treaties and agreements that were broken by the united states and won't shutup about it the whole book. We get it, america ripped the native americans off. big deal. that's history, might makes right, and many nations in history faired worse off than the indians. countries have attacked each other for land for years, at least we allowed them to continue to exist. then, somehow she compares the trail of tears to the holocaust, which is just ridiculous. theres a difference between a walk that they chose to take by not previously cooperating, and a genocide of 6 millions jews through torture and starvation.

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Ancestral Voices includes poets Garrett Hongo, Joy Harjo and Mary TallMountain. Voices of Memory includes poets Li-Young Lee and Gerald Stern featured at New Jersey's Glassboro State College as well as extensive interviews with Bill Moyers.1989 PBS Video Production #20705 in original clamshell case with graphic as shown. ... Read more