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.
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