And Still the Waters Run The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes / Angie Debo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Debo, Angie, 1890-1988.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Five Civilized Tribes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

4th Princeton paperback printing.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Debo's classic work tells the tragic story of the spoliation of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole nations at the turn of the last century in what is now the state of Oklahoma. After their earlier forced removal from traditional lands in the southeastern states--culminating in the devastating 'trail of tears' march of the Cherokees--these five so-called Civilized Tribes held federal land grants in perpetuity, or "as long as the waters run, as long as the grass grows." Yet after passage of the Dawes Act in 1887, the land was purchased back from the tribes, whose members were then systematically swindled out of their private parcels.The publication of Debo's book fundamentally changed the way historians viewed, and wrote about, American Indian history. Writers from Oliver LaFarge, who characterized it as "a work of art," to Vine Deloria, Jr., and Larry McMurtry acknowledge debts to Angie Debo. Fifty years after the book's publication, McMurtry praised Debo's work in the New York Review of Books: "The reader," he wrote, "is pulled along by her strength of mind and power of sympathy."Because the book's findings implicated prominent state politicians and supporters of the University of Oklahoma, the university press there was forced to reject the book in .... for fear of libel suits and backlash against the university. Nonetheless, the director of the University of Oklahoma Press at the time, Joseph Brandt, invited Debo to publish her book with Princeton University Press, where he became director in 1938.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

MAPS

ILLUSTRATIONS

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

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

1e uitg.: 1940.

Princeton paperbacks.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-04615-8

0-691-20931-6

OCLC:

1227050717