And still the waters run : the betrayal of the five civilized tribes / Angie Debo and Amanda Cobb-Greetham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Debo, Angie, 1890-1988, author.

Cobb-Greetham, Amanda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Oklahoma.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages)

Edition:

Unabridged.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, [2022]

System Details:

audio file

Summary:

The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlersAnd Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Their political and economic status was guaranteed by the federal government—until American settlers arrived. Congress abrogated treaties that it had promised would last “as long as the waters run,” and within a generation, the tribes were systematically stripped of their holdings, and were rescued from starvation only through public charity. Called a “work of art” by writer Oliver La Farge, And Still the Waters Run was so controversial when it was first published that Angie Debo was banned from teaching in Oklahoma for many years. Now with an incisive foreword by Amanda Cobb-Greetham, here is the acclaimed book that first documented the scandalous founding of Oklahoma on native land.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword by Amanda Cobb-Greetham

Preface

I. The Indians' Country

II. The White Man's Land System

III. The White Man's Guardianship

IV. The "Grafter's" Share

V. The Voice of the Indian Territory

VI. The Price of Statehood

VII. Protection by the State

VIII. A Tangle of Litigation

IX. The Fight Between Despoilers and Defenders

X. Federal Administration within the State

XI. The Indian's Place in Oklahoma

XII. The Battle for Spoils

XIII. The New Trend

XIV. The Present Situation

Thirty-Two Years After: Postscript to the 1973 Edition

Bibliography

Index.

Participant:

Narrator: Kate Harper.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691242149

0691242143

OCLC:

1344540451