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Canada and the United States

Mark R. Scherer. Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945–1995. (Law in the American West, number 6.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1999. Pp. xviii, 166. $35.00.

Mark R. Scherer has written a legal history of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska from the end of World War II to 1995. This study is a case analysis of legal challenges to the Omaha people, their cultural ways, and their tribal government. The message is clear. In recent American Indian history of federal-Indian relations, the power of influence shifted inevitably to the federal government in the form of federal policy (especially involving termination of federal-Indian trust status between tribes and the U.S. government). Termination (withdrawal of federal protection) and state jurisdiction (Public Law 280) threatened the Omaha community in Nebraska. In the decades of the 1960s to 1995, the Omahas endured the usurping of their sovereignty, one might argue, and regained control over their lives. Scherer concludes that the Omahas demonstrated cultural resiliency and political survival through adaptation to modern federal-tribal involvement. In this story's end, the Omahas win, hence the book's befitting title. The irony is that paternalistic federal power imposed on a small tribe resulted in an Indian victory, but not without costs of division within the community. . . .

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