And still the waters run : the betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes /
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Native Americans owned the eastern half of the area that is now the state of Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forest, coal mines, and untapped oil pools. Their political and economic status in the area was guaranteed by treaties and pate...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1968]
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| Series: | Princeton paperbacks ;
287. |
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| Summary: | At the beginning of the twentieth century, Native Americans owned the eastern half of the area that is now the state of Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forest, coal mines, and untapped oil pools. Their political and economic status in the area was guaranteed by treaties and patents from the federal government of the United States. But white people began to settle among them, and by 1890 these immigrants were overwhelmingly the majority. Congress therefore abrogated treaties that it had promised would last 'as long as waters run, ' and when Oklahoma was admitted to the union in 1907, the Indians received what Angie Debo calls the 'perilous gift of American citizenship.' This book ... documents the orgy of exploitation that followed. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-402) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691005788 9780691005782 |