{"product_id":"the-life-of-sherman-coolidge-arapaho-activist-hardback-9781496233479","title":"The Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist (Hardback) 9781496233479","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTadeusz Lewandowski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496233479\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e358 pages, 30 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Tadeusz Lewandowski has written a valuable history of Arapaho activist Sherman Coolidge. At last, the field has a scholarly biography on this important but long-neglected Society of American Indians (SAI) leader.\"-Jack Evans, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Pointed, polished, lucid, and readable. Those who study the era of assimilation will find much to savor in this account of Sherman Coolidge, a man who played a major role in the creation of a nationwide Indian organization and contributed to how Native people were publicly perceived during his lifetime. In addition, this biography also offers a narrative version of events that is interesting in its own right as it recounts the ups and downs of a human life.”-Philip Burnham, author of \u003ci\u003eSong of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSherman Coolidge’s (1860–1932) panoramic life as survivor of the Indian Wars, witness to the maladministration of the reservation system, mediator between Native and white worlds, and ultimate defender of Native rights and heritage made him the embodiment of his era in American Indian history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Born to a band of Northern Arapaho in present-day Wyoming, Des-che-wa-wah (Runs On Top) endured a series of harrowing tragedies against the brutal backdrop of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars. As a boy he experienced the merciless killings of his family in vicious raids and attacks, surviving only to be given up by his starving mother to U.S. officers stationed at a western military base. Des-che-wa-wah was eventually adopted by a sympathetic infantry lieutenant who changed his name and set his life on a radically different course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Over the next sixty years Coolidge inhabited western plains and eastern cities, rode in military campaigns against the Lakota, entered the Episcopal priesthood, labored as missionary to his tribe on the Wind River Reservation, fomented dangerous conspiracies, married a wealthy New York heiress, met with presidents and congressmen, and became one of the nation’s most prominent Indigenous persons as leader of the Native-run reform group the Society of American Indians. Coolidge’s fascinating biography is essential for understanding the myriad ways Native Americans faced modernity at the turn of the century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Arapahos and Runs On Top\u003cbr\u003e 2. New Life\u003cbr\u003e 3. Return\u003cbr\u003e 4. Conspiracy, Exile, and the East\u003cbr\u003e 5. Losing Ground\u003cbr\u003e 6. Grace\u003cbr\u003e 7. Proving Herself\u003cbr\u003e 8. Twosing\u003cbr\u003e 9. Death and Life\u003cbr\u003e 10. Malcontents     \u003cbr\u003e 11. A New Mission, a New Society\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Society Ascendant\u003cbr\u003e 13. Harmony in Jeopardy \u003cbr\u003e 14. State of Chaos, State of War\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600257085720,"sku":"9781496233479","price":33.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-life-of-sherman-coolidge-arapaho-activist-hardback-9781496233479","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}