| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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A Nation of Statesmen: The Political Culture of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, 1815–1972. By James W. Oberly. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xvi, 336 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3675-8.)
James W. Oberly created A Nation of Statesmen on behalf of the Stockbridge-Munsee Legal Department during a land dispute with the state of Wisconsin. An expert on public land policy, Oberly conducted research and testified on behalf of the tribe. The result is a legal history of Indian land and tribal sovereignty in Wisconsin.	1
The geo-temporal focus of the book is Wisconsin between the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Indian New Deal of 1934. Prior to their removal from Wisconsin, the Stock- bridge-Munsees endured numerous other removals. In the 1730s and 1740s, they moved from New York to Massachusetts and Connecticut, then back to central New York after the American Revolution. Then, in the 1820s and 1830s, they moved to Wisconsin. In each of those migrations, remnants of Algonquian tribes from the Northeast came together and became known by the United States, first as the "New York Indians," and later as the Stock- bridge-Munsee Mohicans.	. . .

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