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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Debo, Angie,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1940
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)

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.

Table of 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