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One letter addressed to Eva and Morris Schwartz from Warren Schwartz dated May 30, 1942. Pertains to life on the base. Mentions an order that prevents military servicemen from taking public transportation that weekend.

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History Now Essay

Inventing a Past: Molly Brant’s Life in Leadership

James Taylor Carson

How do you write the history of someone for whom no image exists? Who surfaces intermittently in scraps of words found across hundreds of pages of archival documents? Whose singularity is so often glossed and aggregated as “Indian”?...

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59 | American Indians in Leadership Winter 2021

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Nancy Ward, Cherokee Beloved Woman

Theda Perdue

In 1755 a Cherokee woman named Nanye’hi accompanied a war party, which included her husband Kingfisher. At Taliwa in what today is north Georgia, the Cherokees engaged the enemy Creek Indians in battle. Nanye’hi crouched behind a log...

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59 | American Indians in Leadership Winter 2021

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Ely S. Parker (Donehogawa): Civil War Hero, Ethnologist, Political Leader

Bruce E. Johansen

After 1800, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, like most Native American tribes, faced a long struggle against destruction of their land bases, cultures, and livelihoods. These struggles also spawned revival movements, one of...

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59 | American Indians in Leadership Winter 2021

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Sitting Bull: Last of the Great Chiefs

Robert M. Utley

Sitting Bull was the last of the great Indian chiefs to surrender his free way of life and settle on a government reservation. He belonged to the Hunkpapa tribe of the Lakota Sioux. The Lakotas numbered seven tribes, loosely...

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59 | American Indians in Leadership Winter 2021

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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) and the National Council of American Indians: Leading the Way for Indigenous Self-Representation

Michael P. Taylor

Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in 1876, the same year as the Battle of Greasy Grass (known more commonly in US history as the Battle of Little Big Horn), Gertrude Simmons Bonnin grew up amidst a US-national culture of systemic...

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59 | American Indians in Leadership Winter 2021

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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) and the National Council of American Indians: Leading the Way for Indigenous Self-Representation

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