Joe Starita: 2 books
A Warrior of the People
How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"An important and riveting story of a 19th-century feminist and change agent. Starita successfully balances the many facts with vivid narrative passages that put the reader inside the very thoughts and emotions of La Flesche." —Chicago Tribune
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received...
"I Am a Man"
Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a...