Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation |
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| Title: | Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation |
| Author: | Paul VanDevelder |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 25 August, 2004 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0316896896 / 9780316896894 |
| List Price: | $32.00 |
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| Amazon Price: | $26.27 |
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The last of a tribal chairman's ten children, Raymond Cross was six when the waters behind the Garrison Dam closed over his home. This massive public work flooded the rich bottomlands that had sustained North Dakota's Three Affiliated Tribes for a thousand years.As the waters rose, the government dispersed the tribes-young Raymond among them-to distant cities. His father, who had spent years fighting the dam, was left behind, a broken man. At his father's graveside, Raymond Cross found his path.After Yale Law, after winning landmark cases on behalf of other tribes, Cross returned to his homeland to fight for his own shattered people. His journey led him back to the Congress his father had battled 40 years before, and into the chambers of the Supreme Court.There, the descendent of the chief who had saved the lives of Lewis and Clark would lay the case for the survival of Indian Country at the feet of nine justices wearing the black robes of the nation's highest court.
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• An Exceptional Introduction To Indian Legal Rights And More
08 April, 2005
I have published an award-winning law review article on Federal Indian Law, worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (until I couldn't hold my nose any longer), and had the great good luck to learn Indian Law from Prof. Raymond Cross at The University of Montana School of Law. But Paul VanDevelder taught me new things about all three.
Mr. VanDevelder deftly explains some of the more arcane aspects of Federal Indian Law in a way that, at least for me, filled in more of the puzzle pieces - but while also making it easily accessible to even the non-professional. Mr. VanDevelder taught me that the Corps of Engineers can be even more insidious and arrogant than even I had suspected. And, given the good professor's reluctance to blow his own horn, Mr. VanDevelder taught me that merely having known Raymond Cross was far more an honor than I could have ever guessed.
If you have any curiosity about Indian legal rights, or seek understanding about the grave damage government administrators can do when they embody the worst kinds of ignorance, arrogance, and egomania, or merely hope to be inspired by a ripping good yarn about the undeniable perseverance of the human spirit, Coyote Warrior is your book.
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• The Hiden Human Costs Of The Impounded Missouri
17 January, 2009
I paddled through all the reservoirs of the Missouri River in 2007 and 2008. One does not fully appreciate the immense nature of these impoundments, especially Ft Peck, Lake Sakakawea and Oahe, until tyring to navigate these systems in a small canoe in relentless prairie winds. Decending these huge inland lakes was some of the most difficult waters I have ever paddled due to enormous waves that can be generated on their expansive surfaces. In addition, finding passage into the reservoirs can be difficult due to severe sedimentation, shallow water and exposed mud flats. The massive earthen dams that impound these in-land "seas" require portages of several miles in order to reconnect to downstream flowing water - provided the power plants are releasing adequate water. One would have thought the Corps would provide shuttle service around these "improvments" to the great Missouri.
During my passage through the lakes, I had a strong sense of environmental loss and human hardship due to the flooding of the river's natural floodplains. I remember standing on Garrison Dam, which rises up a few hundrend feet over the tailwater area, and wondered about the human toil and scrafice that went into buidling such a huge structure in the relentless hot summer suns and bitter cold winters of North Dakota. I also wondered about the displacment of floodplain residents as I gazed over wind-swept lake. I knew there must be a story hidden beneath this "beautiful lake." Now, after reading Coyote Warrior, I have a better understanding of how these impoundments, the Corps, Congress, and we Americans have so seriously impacted a great Indian Nation. Recent world events have cause other nations to question the American Ideal. I can only hope that a new spritual trust or "wouncage" can be forged as we try to understand cultural differences, both foreign and domestic, and as we approach the great economic and envriomental challeges that we presently face and await our unborn grandchildren.
Thank you Paul VanDevelder for telling this sad story.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Is Atonement Possible?
20 May, 2006
This book is an eminently readable account of the disasters which befell the Arikara,Hidatsa and Mandan tribes when they were displaced by the damning of the Missouri.
It is also a disturbing revelation of the shenanigans of government, producing a sense of shame in those of us who look for"justice for all" from our representatives in DC.
It falls to bold Coyote Warriors,Martin Cross and later his brilliant son Raymond to combat in court,the injustices perpetrated on Native peoples.
As a piece of reporting VanDevelder's work is carefully phrased,occasionally lyrical, avoiding heavily loaded language.
It is also supplemented with an exhaustive bibliography(of which the author says there is more),one bound to satisfy demanding researchers.
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• Coyote Warrier: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation
20 July, 2005
An extraordinary look at the forces that disenfrnchised an Indian Nation from its heritage and its land. An insightful look into the destructive forces that rend family and community ties when frderal policies that de-humanize Native people are allowed to be implemented behind one man's ego, and a government's indifference. It is an all too familiar story -- well told -- of disenfranchisement of Indian people and governments. And finally, a story of the courage and incredible intellect of one families battle against irresistible forces.
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• Effective Native American Self-determination
04 March, 2007
Considering that very few people will witness Raymond Cross's dynamism in person or read his eloquent legal briefs and law review articles, Paul VanDevelder's "Coyote Warrior" provides a persuasive account of another Native community's fight for justice in America. The legal struggles of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples for their land and sovereignty, as seen from their standpoint, provides valuable insights into the institutionalized bad faith of federal Indian policy. The author achieved his goal of making the compelling story of three tribe's contentious political relationship with the United States accessible to a wider audience.
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