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And Still the Waters Run (Record no. 3946)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 72006038
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691005782
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 764863
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number E78.I5
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 970.5
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Angie Debo
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title And Still the Waters Run
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Princeton University Press
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 472 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History - U.S.
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