Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary

Bruce Johansen, Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, “is a prolific author on Native American and environmental topics” (p. 307). He states in the Preface “Biography is my favorite mode of history” (p. ix). This biographical dictionary brings together information on 100 Native Americans and “a few non‐Natives who have significantly contributed to survival and revival of peoples who were widely labeled ‘the vanishing race’” (p. ix). There are a substantial number of entries about whom personal detail is not available elsewhere. Most of the persons included here are contemporary, but Johansen...