| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination: Cheyenne-Arapaho Politics. By Loretta Fowler. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxvi + 356 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $37.95, paper.)
With Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination, Fowler completes the last piece "of a controlled comparison of the three Arapaho divisions" first suggested to her by Fred Eggan (p. ix). More than simply fulfilling a task set for her long ago, this book is Fowler's most ambitious and sophisticated accomplishment to date. Comprehensively researched, forcefully argued, this work combines archival evidence with fieldwork, theory with description, and is a model of interdisciplinary research methods and clear thinking.	1
Fowler's focus in this book is Cheyenne and Arapaho political culture, which she introduces through a familiar paradox: "[A]t a time when there is arguably more potential for tribal sovereignty, why is it that memberships challenge efforts to act on that sovereignty" (p. xiv). In this case, she is referring to the fairly widespread demand for per capita payments when community interests might be better served by consolidating funds to service community-wide needs. Since resource allocation is a fundamentally political act, and because politics generally reflect broader societal and cultural values, Fowler explores Cheyenne and Arapaho political culture as it has developed in the century and a quarter since the creation (and subsequent dissolution) of the reservation.	. . .

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