Native American Authors

Mark Monroe
, 1930-

Sioux

Mark Monroe was born in a one room log cabin on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. His family left the reservation for the prairie when he was still a youth. Monroe joined the army in 1949, serving in Korea where he was wounded in action. In the early 1980’s, Monore started a nutrition program for Indians and other minority people with the support of the Presbyterian Hunger fund.

Books by Mark Monroe:

Monroe, Mark. An Indian in White America
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1994.
Genre: Autobiography
ISBN: 1566392349

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