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Canada and the United States

James W. Oberly. A Nation of Statesmen: The Political Culture of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, 1815–1972. (Civilization of the American Indian Series, number 252.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 336. $34.95.

The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans are the modern-day descendants of two Native American groups that were dispersed from their villages in the Hudson River Valley of New York in the seventeenth century and subsequently relocated to Massachusetts and Connecticut, the Oneida Nation in New York, Indiana, and Wisconsin. They settled at their present location in Shawano County, Wisconsin, in the mid-1850s, and today the Stockbridge-Munsee Community (as it has been known since their acceptance of the Indian Reorganization Act in 1937) numbers about 1,500 members. James W. Oberly examines three levels of Stockbridge-Munsee political experience through seven phases of their history, beginning about 1815, when the tribe first made its decision to relocate to Wisconsin, and ending with the early 1970s, when their case before the Indian Claims Commissions was settled and their present 46,000-acre reservation was established. The seven phases into which Oberly divides Stockbridge-Munsee history broadly reflect the sequence of their geographical relocations, shifts in tribal leadership and political objectives, and the evolution of their relationship with the federal government. The three levels of political experience examined include government-to-government relations with the United States, intertribal relations with other Indian groups, and internal political relations and divisions. Within this framework, Oberly directs his attention to a core set of issues that include tribal membership, land, economic development, and jurisdiction over criminal and civil matters within the tribe.

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