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The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970 Volume 2
Contributor(s): Kidwell, Clara Sue (Author), Robertson, Lindsay G. (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0806140062     ISBN-13: 9780806140063
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
OUR PRICE:   $21.73  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2008
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Annotation: The story of a people overcoming colonization
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Native American
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
Dewey: 976.600
Series: American Indian Law and Policy
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 344 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma
 
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Publisher Description:

Volume 2 in the American Indian Law and Policy Series

The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws' removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribe's subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal sovereignty in the late twentieth century.

As Clara Sue Kidwell tells it, the Choctaws' story illuminates a key point in contemporary scholarship on the history of American Indians: that they were not passive victims of colonization and did not assimilate quietly into American society. Adapting to the very structures imposed on them by their colonizers, tribal politicians quickly learned to use the rhetoric of dependency on the government, but they also demanded justice in the form of fulfillment of their treaty rights. Adroitly negotiating with the United States, the Choctaws have created the Choctaw Nation that exists today.

Contributor Bio(s): Robertson, Lindsay G.: - Lindsay G. Robertson, Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center at the University of Oklahoma, is author of Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands.Kidwell, Clara Sue: - Clara Sue Kidwell, former Assistant Director for Cultural Resources at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., is retired as the founding director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970.