Frank Carlson Library

Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their grounds.

Text and photographs present a biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.

A biography of the Shoshoni Indian woman who played an important role in guiding the Lewis and Clark expedition through the Northwest Territory of the United States in 1805-1806.

The story of Hiawatha and how he helped organize the Five Nations of the Iroquois into an influential Indian nation.

Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist...

"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." --From book jacket. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. These two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled...

Presents five brief biographies of Native Americans who have pursued careers in various scientific fields: Jerrel Yakel, Clifton Poodry, Frank C. Dukepoo, Wilfred F. Denetclaw Jr., and Fred Begay.

A biography of the Seminole who spent his life fighting attempts to deport his people from Florida.