And still the waters run
By Debo, Angie,
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And still the waters run :the betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes

by
Debo, Angie,1890-1988. author.
Format
Book
Language
English (English)
Subjects
Five Civilized TribesGovernment relations(DLC)sh85048922
Indians of North AmericaGovernment relations(DLC)sh85065278
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Publisher and Date
Princeton :Princeton University Press,2022.
©2022
Edition
New paperback edition /with a new foreword by Amanda Cobb-Greetham.
ISBN
9780691237770.
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0691237778.
Library of Congress Call Number
E78.I5D4 2022b
Geographic Area Code
n-us---n-us-ok
Description
xlii, 437 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates :illustrations, maps ;22 cm
Contributor(s)Cobb, Amanda J., 1970- writer of foreword.
System Control Number
(OCoLC)1346318443
General Note(s)
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Summary"The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers. And 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." --Publisher description.
Alternative TitleBetrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes
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