American: The Life Story of a Great Indian--Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows

xi, 324 pp. Blue boards. Illustrated by H. M. Stoops. Plenty Coups was the chief of the Mountain Crows (the Apsáalooke) of the Crow Nation and was known for defending Crow lands in Washington, D.C., and promoting education. "One of his famous quotes is: "Education is your greatest weapon. With education you are the white man's equal, without education you are his victim and so shall remain all of your lives. Study, learn, help one another always. Remember there is only poverty and misery in idleness and dreams - but in work there is self respect and independence." Chief Plenty Coups became a chief at the age of twenty-nine; he is the last chief who was elected a chief by other chiefs."