{"title":"Biography \u0026 Autobiography--Native American","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"wakaras-america-the-life-and-legacy-of-a-native-founder-of-the-american-west","title":"Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of colonialism at its center.\"--Ned Blackhawk, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rediscovery of America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815-1855) was among the most influential and feared men in the nineteenth-century American West, famed as a fierce warrior, a merciless trader of Indian slaves, and history's greatest horse thief. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eWakara's America\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Max Perry Mueller illuminates Wakara's complex and sometimes paradoxical story, revealing a man who both helped build the settler American West and defended Native sovereignty. 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A thirty-fifth-generation New Mexican and member of the Pueblo of Laguna, Haaland has lived a remarkable life shaped by poverty, alcoholism, and single parenthood. After a late but meteoric rise in politics, she stepped down from her cabinet position as secretary of the interior in January 2025 to run for governor of New Mexico in the 2026 election. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Voice Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e--titled after Haaland's congressional campaign slogan, \"Congress has never heard a voice like mine\"--she shares the personal history that inspired her courage to organize, run for office, and be a leader. She tells the stories that have defined her life in politics and beyond, from working in her grandfather's cornfield to fighting for change in the halls of Washington, DC. 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