| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970. American Indian Law and Policy Series. By Clara Sue Kidwell. Foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xx + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Venerable Choctaw scholar Clara Sue Kidwell has filled a major hole in Choctaw and Indian Territory studies with her latest book. Works that bridge the divide between the pre- and post-Indian Removal eras are needed to demonstrate both the continuities and divergences for the Indian nations that rebuilt their societies in Indian Territory after being banished from the East. Moreover, works that carry that story past Oklahoma statehood in the early-twentieth century are just as crucial to helping us understand contemporary Native societies and governments. Only the late western historian Angie Debo had attempted such an analysis of Choctaw history before, and her book, The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic (Norman, 1934), was published over seventy years ago. Kidwell fills this gap admirably.

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