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One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation

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Coyote Warrior

One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation

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"The last battle of the American Indian Wars did not end at a place called Wounded Knee. From White Shield to Washington, D.C., new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained Indian lawyers called Coyote Warriors - among them a Mandan/Hidatsa attorney named Raymond Cross." "When Congress seized the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara homelands at the end of World War II, tribal chairman Martin Cross, the great-grandson of chiefs who fed and sheltered Lewis and Clark through the bitter cold winter of 1804, waged an epic but losing battle against the federal government. As floodwaters rose behind the massive shoulders of Garrison Dam, Raymond, the youngest of Martin's ten children, was growing up in a shack with dirt floors and no plumbing or electricity, wearing clothes made from flour sacks. By the time he was six, his people were scattered to slums in a dozen distant cities. Raymond ended up on the West Coast. Far from the homeland of their ancestors, he and his siblings would hear that their father had died alone and broken on the windswept prairie of North Dakota." "At Martin's graveside, Raymond discovered the solitary path he was destined to follow as a man. After Stanford and Yale Law, he returned home to resurrect his father's fight against the federal government. His mission would lead him back to the Congress his father battled forty years before and into the hallowed chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. There, the great-great-grandson of Chief Cherry Necklace would lay the case for the sanctity of the U.S. Constitution, treaty rights, and the legal survival of Indian Country at the feet of the nine black robes of the nation's highest court." "Coyote Warrior tells the story of the three tribes that saved the Corps of Discovery from starvation, their century-long battle to forge a new nation, and the extraordinary journey of one man to redeem a father's dream - and the dignity of his people."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
336

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Cover of: Coyote warrior
Coyote warrior: one man, three tribes, and the trial that forged a nation
2009, University of Nebraska Press
in English - 2nd ed. / with a new afterword by the author.
Cover of: Coyote warrior
Coyote warrior: one man, three tribes, and the trial that forged a nation
2009, University of Nebraska Press
in English - 2nd ed. / with a new afterword by the author.
Cover of: Coyote Warrior
Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation
2007, Little Brown & Company
in English
Cover of: Coyote Warrior
Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial that Forged a Nation
November 1, 2005, Bison Books
Paperback in English
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Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation
August 25, 2004, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown
Hardcover in English

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First Sentence

"We are a comet without a tail, streaking across the desert at one hundred five miles per hour in a rented Buick."

Classifications

Library of Congress
E78.N75 V35 2004, E78.N4V35 2004, E78.N4 V35 2004

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.2 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9354266M
Internet Archive
coyotewarriorone00vand
ISBN 10
0316896896
ISBN 13
9780316896894
LCCN
2003026614
OCLC/WorldCat
53903678
Library Thing
1049081
Goodreads
2114569

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