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Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region. By Sandra Faiman-Silva. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xl, 273 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8032-2001-4. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-8032-6902-1.)

In Choctaws at the Crossroads, Sandra Faiman-Silva uses world systems theory to examine how contact with the United States in 1800 transformed the Choctaws from an autonomous nation into a dependent tribe. Looking at Choctaw history and culture, the author tells a story that is as much an indictment of capitalism as it is a study of the Choctaws, and therein lie the book's strengths and weaknesses. . . .

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