Book Review: Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation

Authors

Matthew L. M. Fletcher, University of North DakotaFollow

Date of this Version

2006

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:4 (Fall 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

A citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations (MHA Nation), Raymond Cross has carried out unparalleled work as an Indian lawyer, a tribal advocate, and an Indian law scholar. Coyote Warrior chronicles Cross's incredible journey from youngest child of a prominent Indian family to American Indian rights crusader, to his two triumphant appearances before the United States Supreme Court, to his lobbying efforts to secure compensation for the lost homelands of his nations. Paul VanDevelder's journalistic style lends much to these tales that appeared before only in the oft-stale pages of the United States Reporter and Congressional hearing transcripts.