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Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence. By Valerie Lambert. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xi + 302 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, CAN$56.00, £34.50.)
      In this exhaustive and important study, anthropologist Valerie Lambert skillfully uses archival sources, oral histories, and field research to consider the construction of a new tribal political order in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma during the late-twentieth century. Lambert clearly demonstrates that the creation of the new political order involved a number of steps: the defeat of tribal termination, a campaign of energetic institution building, the delineation of tribal membership boundaries, and vigorous economic development. According to her, these steps have required the Nation to exercise and protect their tribal sovereignty against threats from the federal government, the state of Oklahoma, and non-Choctaws intent on erasing Choctaw history and asserting white control of local resources. . . .
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