| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Murray R. Wickett. Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma 1865–1907. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2000. Pp. xvii, 240. Cloth $59.95, paper $26.95.

Studies abound documenting the history of relations between whites and blacks in the late nineteenth century. Scholars have also published many works dealing with the federal government's policy of settling Indians on reservations in the late 1800s. Murray R. Wickett has produced a pioneering study that seeks to understand the relations of whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Indian and Oklahoma Territories from the end of the Civil War to Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Although this work is intriguing, informative, and well written, it falls somewhat short of achieving Wickett's goal of understanding the interrelationships of the three groups, because the author, in most of the chapters, discusses each group separately with little interplay between them. The book does succeed, however, in demonstrating the irony of the situation in which government officials strove to assimilate the Indians and inculcate them with "white" ideals and values while at the same time working to segregate blacks and deny them entrance into the American political system. . . .

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