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

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

Deer, Ada
Wilkinson, Charles
Perdue, Theda

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in Native American Studies, Book 19

Biographies GeneralNative American HistoryUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 0806164271
ISBN13: 9780806164274
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Oct 31 2019
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 ensure sovereignty and self-determination for all tribes.

Deer grew up in poverty on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, but with the encouragement of her mother and teachers, she earned degrees in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia University. Armed with a first-rate education, an iron will, and a commitment to justice, she went from being a social worker in Minneapolis to leading the struggle for the restoration of the Menominees' tribal status and trust lands.

Having accomplished that goal, she moved on to teach American Indian Studies at UW-Madison, to hold a fellowship at Harvard, to work for the Native American Rights Fund, to run unsuccessfully for Congress, and to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs in the Clinton administration.

Now in her eighties, Deer remains as committed as ever to human rights, especially the rights of American Indians. A deeply personal story, written with humor and honesty, this book is a testimony to the ability of one individual to change the course of history through hard work, perseverance, and an unwavering commitment to social justice.

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