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Warriors without war : Seminole leadership in the late twentieth century / Patricia Riles Wickman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wickman, Patricia R. (Patricia Riles)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Billie, James, 1944-.
- Billie, James.
- Billie, James, 1944---Influence.
- Seminole Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Seminole Indians.
- Seminole Indians--Florida--Social conditions--20th century.
- Seminole Indians--Oklahoma--Social conditions--20th century.
- Indigenous leadership--Florida--History--20th century.
- Indigenous leadership--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
- Gambling on Indian reservations--Florida--History--20th century.
- Gambling on Indian reservations.
- Gambling on Indian reservations--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
- Seminole Nation of Oklahoma--History--20th century.
- Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.
- Local Subjects:
- Indigenous leadership--Florida--History--20th century.
- Indigenous leadership--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (420 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Warriors Without War takes readers beneath the placid waters of the Seminole's public image and into the fascinating depths of Seminole society and politics. For the entire last quarter of the twentieth century, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, a federally recognized American Indian Tribe, struggled as it transitioned from a tiny group of warriors into one of the best-known tribes on the world's economic stage through their gaming enterprises. Caught between a desperate desire for continued cultural survival and
- Contents:
- An alternate universe
- Coming of age in the '70s
- James "E." Billie : the man who would be king
- Hitting the big time
- Dollars and drugs
- Home, home on the res
- One too many alligators
- Money matters (more and more)
- The beginning of the end
- Gaming : the next chapter
- The fourth Seminole war
- La ley del deseo
- A change, of course?
- Coda
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817385392
- 0817385398
- OCLC:
- 801363500
- Publisher Number:
- heb40246 hdl
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