“A brilliant cautionary tale…Reading it is like watching a wildfire whose flames are so mesmerizingly beautiful that it’s almost easy to ignore the deadly mess left behind

and continuity of Indian nations and their lifestyles

whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences

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pushing two hundred species per day to extinction and threatening the entire human species

Chief Bender's Burden language materials “A brilliant cautionary tale…Reading itThe greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, "the coolest pitcher in the game." Using a trademark delivery, an impressive assortment of pitches that may have included the game's first slider, and an apparently unflappable demeanor, he earned a reputation as baseball's great clutch pitcher during tight Deadball Era pennant races and in front of boisterous World Series crowds. More