Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice Volume 19

by Ada Deer

Book Overview

2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee

This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, "I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived." She proceeds to narrate the first eighty-three years of her life, which are characterized by her tireless campaigns to reverse the forced termination of the Menominee tribe and to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806168765
• ISBN13: 9780806168760
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"