Maris Bryant Pierce: the making of a Seneca leader / H.A. Vernon --
Nampeyo: giving the Indian artist a name / Ronald McCoy --
Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte: the reformed and the reformer / Valerie Sherer Mathes --
Henry Chee Dodge: from the long walk to self-determination / David M. Brugge --
Charles Curtis: the politics of allotment / William E. Unrau --
Luther Standing Bear: "I would raise him to be an Indian" / Richard N. Ellis --
Designing Woman: Minnie Kellogg, Iroquois leader / Laurence M. Hauptman --
Peterson Zah: a progressive outlook and a traditional style / George M. Lubick.

"It's often assumed that Native Americans live in two distinct worlds: one Indian and the other white. In this collection of biographical studies of eight American Indians, though, we see that in fact they live in just one world of great complexity that has challenged, sustained, and sometimes destroyed them. Each of the leaders profiled here struck different balances between their Indian identity and their work within the dominant white cultures. Yet each attained a cultural and ethnic identity, and in describing that process these essays combine history and biography to reveal people struggling to preserve their heritage while making their own mark in life."--Back cover.

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