"Our cause will ultimately triumph"
Subtitle: profiles in American Indian sovereignty
By: edited by Tim Alan Garrison
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781594609619
Subjects: Indians of North America; Legal status, laws; Government relations
Description: "Our Cause Will Ultimately Triumph" examines the history of American Indian tribal sovereignty from a peoples perspective. An impressive group of historians and legal scholars offer up engaging biographies of the courageous leaders who helped establish and protect the autonomy of their people". -- BACKCOVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alexander McGillivray : sovereignty, nationalism, and the political theory of the great : beloved man of the creeks / Michael D. Green; title: John Ross : father of his country / Tim Alan Garrison; title: Jeremiah Evarts : the Cherokees' forgotten counsel / Nancy Morgan; title: William Penn Adair : the great Indian statesman of the country? / Andrew Denson; title: Paul and Lorena Williams : sovereignty and sheep on the Navajo Nation / Bethany R. Berger; title: Paschal Sherman : Blue Jay, Ph.D. / Laurie Arnold and Paul G. Wapato; title: David Sohappy, Sr. : voice of the river people / Andrew H. Fisher; title: Ada Deer : making a difference / Roberta Ulrich; title: Billy Evans Horse : the one who sits in the middle / Luke Eric Lassister; title: The Dann Sisters : defenders of the Western Shoshone homeland / Cynthia L. Landrum; title: Raymond Austin : Navajo jurist / Rebecca L. Hartley; title: Marge Anderson : restoring the treaty rights of the Mille Lacs Band / Sheryl R. Lightfoot; title: James E. Billie : unconquered statesman of the Florida seminoles / Andrew K. Frank; title: Michael Petoskey : focusing on the common ground / Adrea Korthese; title: Elouise Cobell : bringing the United States to account / Bethany R. Berger.