Debo .:. And still the Waters Run

Debo, Angie,
And still the Waters Run. The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes. Fourth printing. Princeton: University Press, 1991. xxxi, 417 Seiten mit Abbildungen, Literaturverzeichnis und Register. Broschiert. 215 x 139 mm. 553 g

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* The tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks and Seminoles.
Bestell-Nr.159978 | ISBN: 0-691-00578-8 | 978-0-691-00578-2

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Debo | Ethnologie | Voelkerkunde | Nordamerika | Indianer

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AMERICAN HISTORY
AND STILL THE WATERS RUN
The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes
Angie Debo

This classic work 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 beginning of the present century about seventy thousand of these Indians 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. Farmers, cattlemen, and coal diggers, they held their lands in common and maintained their own legislative bodies and educational and judicial systems. 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 in the majority. Congress therefore abrogated treaties that it had promised would last "as long as the 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—which Oliver LaFarge labeled a "work of art"—documents the orgy of exploitation that followed. Within a generation the Indians were almost stripped of their holdings, and were rescued from starvation only through public charity. Discovery of oil only intensified the struggle, and "grafting off the Indians" attained the status ofa major industry.

"This book was first published in 1940, not a particularly receptive year for books about the betrayal of the American Indian. Iltl is now extremely timely and should be picked up by that increasing number of concerned citizens who want to know the true history."
—Publishers Weekly

Angie Debo (1890—1988), writer and lecturer, grew up in Oklahoma against a background of Indian and pioneer life. PRINCETON PAPERBACKS

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