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

Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice2019 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

But her interests are not limited to science

Although environmental responsibility often seems like an overwhelming task

there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them

increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states

Erdrich's wry sensibility

human rights issues

and an apparently unflappable demeanor

and how doing the right thing isn't always easy but important in the end

When dealing with Indigenous women's history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures

English words with Ojibwe translation

spreading the word about scientific knowledge

Stephen Graham Jones