| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination: Cheyenne-Arapaho Politics. By Loretta Fowler. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxx, 356 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8032-2013-8.)

Loretta Fowler has contributed greatly to our understanding of how tribal governments have maintained their efficacy and legitimacy in the face of coercive federal assimilation programs and rabid hostility from non-Indian neighbors. In this important work, Fowler traces from the early reservation years to the modern self-determination era Cheyenne and Arapaho (Oklahoma) resistance strategies to a colonial discourse that disparaged Indian character and blamed the victim for impoverishment. In the late 1960s a new generation of Cheyenne-Arapaho began to echo that discourse by criticizing tribal leaders' pursuit of sovereignty just at a time when the federal government became more supportive of self-determination. Contemporary political instability, rooted in historical and personal experiences with that discourse, has led to a crisis of confidence for political leaders and voters alike.

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