The nature of leadership and the human qualities that promote or inhibit it have a long history in Western thought and remain a central concern in modern societies. Crises in leadership may arise from either human failings or social complexities that defeat or reject those most qualified to lead. While most contemporary political or social commentators on such crises tend to focus on external circumstances, David Cawthon examines classical thinkers from Plato to Nietzsche to offer a historical and philosophical perspective on the intrinsic qualities of leadership and how these qualities are...
The nature of leadership and the human qualities that promote or inhibit it have a long history in Western thought and remain a central concern in mod...
"Fascinating and highly readable . . . This book should be required reading for any student of Federal Indian policy."-Journal of American Ethnic History. " Clark] places the Kiowas at center stage in the drama, as prime movers in determining their own fate. In the process, his] study becomes not only a case study of the Dawes Act in application, but an examination of the Kiowas' persistent and creative struggle in the late nineteenth century to maintain material, legal, and cultural rights."-Montana. "Clark's unique approach in Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock allows him to go beyond the initial...
"Fascinating and highly readable . . . This book should be required reading for any student of Federal Indian policy."-Journal of American Ethnic Hist...
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as "Indian Country." For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright's A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the state's Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.
As a synthesis of current...
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think...
