Dancing Warrior

Margaret "Molly" Hollenbach is a social-cultural anthropologist and freelance writer. She is the author of scholarly works as well as a memoir and has worked as a technical writer, reported for a weekly newspaper, and written documentary film scripts.

"As much detective mystery as family memoir, Dancing Warrior illuminates Paul Flying Eagle Goodbear's thoroughly modern twentieth-century life and his 'startlingly modern' art. Working with Goodbear's relatives, diverse archives, and her aunt Marion's stories and journals, Molly Hollenbach pieces together a compelling story of Paul and Marion's romance amid the entanglements of federal Indian policy and Native/non-Native mutual biases, prejudices, and fascinations."--K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Indigenous studies scholar and author of They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School "Focusing on Cheyenne artist Paul Flying Eagle Goodbear, Dancing Warrior is also about the processes of discovering the past. Molly Hollenbach's insightful and compassionate voice shines as she follows her subjects through the art and intellectual circles of the American Southwest."--Nicolas G. Rosenthal, author of Painting Native America: Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century "Molly Hollenbach's Dancing Warrior is the compelling story of a Cheyenne artist who traveled between cultures in a struggle to find a world that would see him whole. This deeply personal biography tackles sensitive cultural issues with unfailing poise and honesty."--Philip Burnham, author of Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn