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Indigenous Firsts
Yvonne Wakim Dennis, author
Arlene Hirschfelder, author
Paulette F. Molin, author
Visible Ink Press
43311 Joy Rd., #414, Canton, MI 48187-2075
www.visibleinkpress.com
9781578598076, $74.95, HC, 496pp
https://www.amazon.com/Indigenous-Firsts-Achievements-Multicultural-Collection/dp/1578598079
Synopsis: "Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events" is an encyclopedic compendium that includes Native American Medal of Honor recipients, Heisman Trophy recipients, U.S. Olympians, a U.S. vice president, Congressional representatives, NASA astronauts, Pulitzer Prize recipients, U.S. poet laureates, Oscar winners, and more.
Also listed is the first Native American magician, all-Native comedy show, architects, attorneys, bloggers, chefs, cartoonists, psychologists, religious leaders, filmmakers, educators, physicians, code talkers, and inventors.
The luminaries include Jim Thorpe, King Kamehameha, Debra Haaland, and Will Rogers, along with less familiar notables such as Native Hawaiian language professor and radio host Larry Lindsey Kimura and Cree/Mohawk forensic pathologist Dr. Kona Williams. Their stories plus the stories of 2000 other people, events, places and more are eloquently presented with the publication of :Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events".
Critique: Informatively enhanced with the inclusion of an eight page bibliography of Further Readings; a two page listing of Selected Websites; a six page list of Native-Owned Museums; and a thirty-nine page Index, "Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events" is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to highschool, community, college and university library Native American Studies collections. It should be noted for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subjects of Native American Biographies, Demographics, and History, that "Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events" is also available in a paperback edition (9781578597123, $32.95) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $14.99).
Editorial Note: Since 1989 Visible Ink Press has published popular references built by experts, packed with facts, handsomely illustrated, with great indexes and appendices. These big bold beautiful books satisfy the hunger for information and thirst for answers that stretch the mind and challenge readers' preconceptions. They inform and entertain in the areas of science, history, minority studies, and the paranormal. The Visible Ink Press editorial and design community brings decades of experience to helping readers reach a higher level of enlightenment.
Warrior Spirit
Herman J. Viola
University of Oklahoma Press
2800 Venture Drive, Norman, OK 73069
www.oupress.com
9780806180311, $19.95, PB, 164pp
https://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Spirit-American-Heroism-Patriotism/dp/0806180315
Synopsis: For decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos served as Code Talkers during World War II, but more often they learn that Native Americans were enemies of the United States, not allies or patriots. With the publication of "Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Heroism and Patriotism", author Herman J. Viola sets the record straight by highlighting the military service (and major sacrifices) of Native American soldiers and veterans in the U.S. armed services.
American Indians have fought in uniform in each and all of our nation's wars. Since 1775, despite a legacy of broken treaties, cultural suppression, and racial discrimination, indigenous Americans have continued to serve in numbers that far exceed their percentage of the general U.S. population. "Warrior Spirit" introduces readers to unsung Native American heroes ranging from the first Native guides and soldiers during the Revolutionary War to those servicemen and servicewomen who ventured to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
This outstanding record of service begs a question: Why do American Indians willingly serve a country that has treated them so poorly? Native veterans invariably answer that they are a warrior people who have a sacred obligation to defend their homeland and their families.
Critique: Of special and informative value to readers of all ages who are interested in the subject, "Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Heroism and Patriotism" by Herman J. Viola (Director of Quincentenary Programs in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) is a unique resource that is especially and unreservedly recommended for highschool, community, and academic library Native American Studies and American Military History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted by students, academia, and non-specialist general readers that "Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Heroism and Patriotism" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $13.23).
Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association
Valerie Sherer Mathes
University of Oklahoma Press
2800 Venture Drive, Norman, OK 73069
www.oupress.com
9780806180274, $55.00, HC, 306pp
https://www.amazon.com/Amelia-Quinton-Womens-National-Association/dp/0806180277
Synopsis: With the publication of "Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform", Professor Valerie Mathes provides the first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833-1926) and the organization she co-founded, the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA), offering nuanced insights into the intersection of gender, race, religion, and politics in our shared history. Professor Mathes also shows how Quinton was a true force for reform and progress who was nonetheless constrained by the assimilationist convictions of her time.
The WNIA, which Quinton cofounded with Mary Lucinda Bonney in 1879, was organized expressly to press for a "more just, protective, and fostering Indian policy," but also to promote the assimilation of the Indian through Christianization and "civilization." Charismatic and indefatigable, Quinton garnered support for the WNIA's work by creating strong working relationships with leaders of the main reform groups, successive commissioners of Indian affairs, secretaries of the interior, and prominent congressmen.
The WNIA's powerful network of friends formed a hybrid organization: religious in its missionary society origins but also political, using its powers to petition and actively address public opinion. Professor Mathes follows the organization as it evolved from its initial focus on evangelizing Indian women (and promoting Victorian society's ideals of "true womanhood") through its return to its missionary roots, establishing over sixty missionary stations, supporting physicians and teachers, and building houses, chapels, schools, and hospitals.
With reference to Quinton's voluminous writings (including her letters, speeches, and newspaper articles) as well as to WNIA literature, Professor Mathes draws a complex picture of an organization that at times ignored traditional Indian practices and denied individual agency, even as it provided dispossessed and impoverished people with health care and adequate housing. And at the center of this picture we find Quinton, a woman and reformer of her time.
Critique: Informatively enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of a Foreword by Lori Jacobson, a listing of Abbreviations, sixty-four pages of Notes, a fourteen page Bibliography, and a six page Index, "Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform" is a seminal work of meticulous scholarship that is unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Native American Studies and Women Social Activist Biography collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, historians, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $20.370.
Editorial Note: Valerie Sherer Mathes, Professor Emerita of City College of San Francisco. Among the several books she has authored or edited is "Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy". She has an Author's Page on the Amazon website at: https://www.amazon.com/Valerie-Sherer-Mathes/e/B001HOIE7Y
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
Indigenous Firsts
Yvonne Wakim Dennis, author
Arlene Hirschfelder, author
Paulette F. Molin, author
Visible Ink Press
43311 Joy Rd., #414, Canton, MI 48187-2075
www.visibleinkpress.com
9781578598076, $74.95, HC, 496pp
https://www.amazon.com/Indigenous-Firsts-Achievements-Multicultural-Collection/dp/1578598079
Synopsis: "Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events" is an encyclopedic compendium that includes Native American Medal of Honor recipients, Heisman Trophy recipients, U.S. Olympians, a U.S. vice president, Congressional representatives, NASA astronauts, Pulitzer Prize recipients, U.S. poet laureates, Oscar winners, and more.
Also listed is the first Native American magician, all-Native comedy show, architects, attorneys, bloggers, chefs, cartoonists, psychologists, religious leaders, filmmakers, educators, physicians, code talkers, and inventors.
The luminaries include Jim Thorpe, King Kamehameha, Debra Haaland, and Will Rogers, along with less familiar notables such as Native Hawaiian language professor and radio host Larry Lindsey Kimura and Cree/Mohawk forensic pathologist Dr. Kona Williams. Their stories plus the stories of 2000 other people, events, places and more are eloquently presented with the publication of :Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events".
Critique: Informatively enhanced with the inclusion of an eight page bibliography of Further Readings; a two page listing of Selected Websites; a six page list of Native-Owned Museums; and a thirty-nine page Index, "Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events" is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to highschool, community, college and university library Native American Studies collections. It should be noted for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subjects of Native American Biographies, Demographics, and History, that "Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events" is also available in a paperback edition (9781578597123, $32.95) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $14.99).
Editorial Note: Since 1989 Visible Ink Press has published popular references built by experts, packed with facts, handsomely illustrated, with great indexes and appendices. These big bold beautiful books satisfy the hunger for information and thirst for answers that stretch the mind and challenge readers' preconceptions. They inform and entertain in the areas of science, history, minority studies, and the paranormal. The Visible Ink Press editorial and design community brings decades of experience to helping readers reach a higher level of enlightenment.
Warrior Spirit
Herman J. Viola
University of Oklahoma Press
2800 Venture Drive, Norman, OK 73069
www.oupress.com
9780806180311, $19.95, PB, 164pp
https://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Spirit-American-Heroism-Patriotism/dp/0806180315
Synopsis: For decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos served as Code Talkers during World War II, but more often they learn that Native Americans were enemies of the United States, not allies or patriots. With the publication of "Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Heroism and Patriotism", author Herman J. Viola sets the record straight by highlighting the military service (and major sacrifices) of Native American soldiers and veterans in the U.S. armed services.
American Indians have fought in uniform in each and all of our nation's wars. Since 1775, despite a legacy of broken treaties, cultural suppression, and racial discrimination, indigenous Americans have continued to serve in numbers that far exceed their percentage of the general U.S. population. "Warrior Spirit" introduces readers to unsung Native American heroes ranging from the first Native guides and soldiers during the Revolutionary War to those servicemen and servicewomen who ventured to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
This outstanding record of service begs a question: Why do American Indians willingly serve a country that has treated them so poorly? Native veterans invariably answer that they are a warrior people who have a sacred obligation to defend their homeland and their families.
Critique: Of special and informative value to readers of all ages who are interested in the subject, "Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Heroism and Patriotism" by Herman J. Viola (Director of Quincentenary Programs in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) is a unique resource that is especially and unreservedly recommended for highschool, community, and academic library Native American Studies and American Military History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted by students, academia, and non-specialist general readers that "Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Heroism and Patriotism" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $13.23).
Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association
Valerie Sherer Mathes
University of Oklahoma Press
2800 Venture Drive, Norman, OK 73069
www.oupress.com
9780806180274, $55.00, HC, 306pp
https://www.amazon.com/Amelia-Quinton-Womens-National-Association/dp/0806180277
Synopsis: With the publication of "Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform", Professor Valerie Mathes provides the first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833-1926) and the organization she co-founded, the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA), offering nuanced insights into the intersection of gender, race, religion, and politics in our shared history. Professor Mathes also shows how Quinton was a true force for reform and progress who was nonetheless constrained by the assimilationist convictions of her time.
The WNIA, which Quinton cofounded with Mary Lucinda Bonney in 1879, was organized expressly to press for a "more just, protective, and fostering Indian policy," but also to promote the assimilation of the Indian through Christianization and "civilization." Charismatic and indefatigable, Quinton garnered support for the WNIA's work by creating strong working relationships with leaders of the main reform groups, successive commissioners of Indian affairs, secretaries of the interior, and prominent congressmen.
The WNIA's powerful network of friends formed a hybrid organization: religious in its missionary society origins but also political, using its powers to petition and actively address public opinion. Professor Mathes follows the organization as it evolved from its initial focus on evangelizing Indian women (and promoting Victorian society's ideals of "true womanhood") through its return to its missionary roots, establishing over sixty missionary stations, supporting physicians and teachers, and building houses, chapels, schools, and hospitals.
With reference to Quinton's voluminous writings (including her letters, speeches, and newspaper articles) as well as to WNIA literature, Professor Mathes draws a complex picture of an organization that at times ignored traditional Indian practices and denied individual agency, even as it provided dispossessed and impoverished people with health care and adequate housing. And at the center of this picture we find Quinton, a woman and reformer of her time.
Critique: Informatively enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of a Foreword by Lori Jacobson, a listing of Abbreviations, sixty-four pages of Notes, a fourteen page Bibliography, and a six page Index, "Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform" is a seminal work of meticulous scholarship that is unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Native American Studies and Women Social Activist Biography collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, historians, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $20.370.
Editorial Note: Valerie Sherer Mathes, Professor Emerita of City College of San Francisco. Among the several books she has authored or edited is "Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy". She has an Author's Page on the Amazon website at: https://www.amazon.com/Valerie-Sherer-Mathes/e/B001HOIE7Y
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
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