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The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has borne more than its fair share of
the burden created by the federal government's wildly vacillating
Indian policy. Mark R. Scherer's "Imperfect Victories" provides a
detailed examination of the Omahas' tenacious efforts to overcome
the damaging effects of shifting directions in federal policy
during the last fifty years. The Omahas' struggles are particularly
significant because the tribe often bore the initial impact of
experimental legislation that would later be implemented
nationally. Scherer details the disastrous consequences of postwar
federal legislation that transferred control over Indian affairs to
state authorities as a precursor to the wholesale termination of
Indian tribalism. The legislation brought jurisdictional turmoil to
the Omaha reservation and placed the Omahas in chronic conflict
with local law enforcement agencies. As the tribe fought to become
the first Indian group in the nation to escape the effects of that
law through retrocession, they waged equally notable struggles for
the redress of past wrongs with the Indian Claims Commission and in
the federal courts. Scherer demonstrates that the Omahas' successes
in those campaigns have been at best imperfect victories, coming
only after years of hardship and failing to eliminate many
underlying tensions and problems.
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