Waters, Frank - Fergus M. Bordewich (review date March 1994)
Fergus M. Bordewich (review date March 1994)
SOURCE: A review of Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten, in Smithsonian, Vol. 24, No. 12, March, 1994, pp. 130-31.
[In the following excerpt, Bordewich examines various aspects of Brave Are My People, Waters's overview of various Native-American leaders and speakers.]
In Brave Are My People, Frank Waters recounts the lives of Tecumseh and more than a dozen other chiefs, battle leaders and orators from the history of Native Americans. Some are well known—Powhatan, Pontiac, Crazy Horse—and others less so. Readers will find Joseph Brandt, the remarkable Mohawk warrior who attended Dartmouth and translated the Acts of the Apostles into his native tongue; Sequoyah, the 19th-century inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, the only alphabet independently created in Indian country; Manuelito, the Navajo who led his people in their bitter war against the United States,...
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