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Lewandowski Sherman Coolidge

NEW BY
Tadeusz Lewandowski

The Life of Sherman
Coolidge, Arapaho Activist

ISBN: 978-1496233479 (Hardcover)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press 
(December, 2022)

This first-ever biography offers an intimate portrait of the survivor of the Indian wars and defender of Native rights.

Philip Gordon, Philip Bergin Gordon, Chippewa, Ojibwe
Zitkala-Sa, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Gertrude Bonnin, Yankton Dakota
Zitkala-Sa, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Gertrude Bonnin, Yankton Dakota
Tadeusz Lewandowski, Christian Aaron Lewandowski, Tadzio Lewandowski, Tadz Lewandowski, Christian Lewandowski

Chris 'Tadeusz' Lewandowski was an American academic and author of four monographs, a popular hand-book for Polish students of English, and more than three dozen articles published in periodicals and books in Europe and the United States.

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RED BIRD, RED POWER: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ZITKALA-Å A

In this definitive biography, Tadeusz Lewandowski carefully chronicles the challenges that Ger-trude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), her Dakota Nation, and many Native Americans endured during her lifetime. Red Bird, Red Power is a must-read for those interested in this remarkable woman and the history of Native and non-Native relations during the first half of the twentieth century.

 

 

A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff

author and professor emerita of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago

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