Review
"In addition to presenting the words of more than 40 speakers, compiler-illustrator Diedrich provides background and source information about the occasion of each speech and enhances the texts with many well-executed drawings of the principal speakers." -- Minnesota History
"Mark Diedrich, who compiled this collection and added valuable sketches of many of the native orators, has provided a valuable service to those interested in Indian history. This work and his other books . . . add significantly to the reader's knowledge and appreciation of the character, beliefs, and attitudes of these Indian peoples." --John W. Bailey -- North Dakota History
"Mark Diedrich, who compiled this collection and added valuable sketches of many of the native orators, has provided a valuable service to those interested in Indian history. This work and his other books . . . add significantly to the reader's knowledge and appreciation of the character, beliefs, and attitudes of these Indian peoples." --John W. Bailey -- North Dakota History
About the Author
Mark Diedrich was born in Chicago in 1951. He began writing and publishing in the 1980s, specializing in books about American Indian leaders, oratory, and tribes, of the Upper Midwestern United States, particularly the Dakota-Lakota, Ojibway or Chippewa, and the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago. He contributed eight biographical sketches of Dakota leaders to the recently published, American National Biography, published by Oxford University Press. He currently lives in Rochester, Minnesota with his wife Ann and several children.
