| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Book Review

White Grizzly Bear's Legacy: Learning to Be Indian. By Lawney L. Reyes (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xviii + 197 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. $23.95.) First to Fight. By Henry Mihesuah. Edited by Devon Abbot Mihesuah. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xviii + 103 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95; £20.50.)
White Grizzly Bear's Legacy and First to Fight are primary sources for the mostly hidden history of the people who grew up as Indians in the early twentieth century, at a time when most Americans assumed Indians were disappearing peoples. Henry Mihesuah and Lawney Reyes represent tens of thousands of contemporaries who had to struggle to fit Indian identity into modern lives in a world in which, at best, that identity was considered obsolete and unimportant.	1
We have the account of Henry Mihesuah thanks to his daughter-in-law, Devon Abbot Mihesuah, editor of the Native American Quarterly and professor of indigenous studies and history at Northern Arizona University, who captured his stories on audio tape and edited them into congenially readable form. Mihesuah introduces each of the five chapters with a brief but illuminating explanation of the context of her father-in-law's remembrances and inserts her own and her mother-in-law's useful comments elsewhere as well. She has also given us endnotes and an extensive bibliography. Her father-in-law was a full-blood Comanche whose grandfather was a companion of Quanah Parker, and as a marine was involved in the obscure American involvement in post-World War II China.	2
The first chapter begins with stories of Comanche origins and the events that brought the Comanches to the defeat at Adobe Walls in 1874, where Henry Mih-esuah's grandfather Mihesuah was wounded and his great uncle, the spiritual figure White Eagle, or Eschiti, was disgraced by the failure of his medicine.	. . .

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