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Wilma Mankiller The first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, she took tragedy and illness and made strength. And don't even ask where she got her name.
By Andrew Nelson [11/20/01]

Mixing it up The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry.
By Scott Malcomson [12/01/00]

"The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams" by Nasdijj A not-quite-Native American's hard, strange life makes for a fiercely original memoir about the compulsion to write.
By Maria Russo [10/26/00]

Skull wars Native American activists battle scientists for bones that may prove they had white ancestors.
By Lawrence Osborne [03/16/00]

Sherman Alexie's cultural imperialism The Native American novelist thinks Ian Frazier had no business writing "On the Rez." He may have some trespasses of his own to answer for.
By Jonathan Miles [02/14/00]

"On the Rez" by Ian Frazier In an instant American classic, a great writer zeros in on the Oglala Sioux (as much as he can zero in on anything).
By Charles Taylor [02/01/00]

Artist's little helper Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
By Susan Emerling [10/29/99]

A kinder, gentler cowboy Ric Lynden Hardman revives the cowboy genre with "Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western" -- a picaresque, cocky, playful coming-of-age novel.
By Polly Shulman [06/04/98]

Remembering Michael Dorris Friends and colleagues celebrate the writer's life -- and take issue, sometimes angrily, with those who have raised dark questions about it.
By James Surowiecki [06/26/97]

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