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Table of Contents:

• Tragic wisdom and survivance / Deborah L. Madsen
• From the forgotten American to indigenous rights / Joëlle Rostkowski
• Conversation with Gerald Vizenor, series editor, poet, novelist, and art critic
• N. Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, painter, and UNESCO artist for peace
• Suzan Harjo, policy advocate, journalist, essayist, and poet
• Richard West, lawyer and founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian
• Emil Her Many Horses, curator, National Museum of the American Indian
• Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska
• Veronical Tiller, historian, consultant, and writer
• Erma Vizenor, tribal chair, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota
• Louisita Warren, elder of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico
• Tony Abeyta, painter and sculptor
• David Bradley, painter and sculptor
• Darren Vigil Gray, painter and musician
• Jill Momaday, actress, model, and former chief of protocol, State of New Mexico
• Rulen Tangen, dancer and choreographer
• Robert Tim Coulter, lawyer, founder and director of the Indian Law Resource Center
• Kenneth Deer, journalist, educator, and UN indigenous representative
• United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
• In memory of Deskaheh.

Author/Creator:

Rostkowski, Joëlle

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Conversations with remarkable Native Americans [by Rostkowski, J.]

Related Series:

Native traces

Subjects:

Indians of North America — Biography

Indians of North America — Civil rights

Indians of North America — Government relations

Indians of North America — Ethnic identity

Indians of North America — Intellectual life

Indians of North America

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Description:

li, 143 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Call Numbers:

E89 .R67 2012

ISBNs:

9781438441757 (hardcover, alk. paper)
1438441754 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40020695929

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011019510

OCLC Numbers:

727047846