| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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Book Review

Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory. By David La Vere. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xii + 292 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

American Indian societies are much like societies everywhere. They have struggled, counciled, and traded with their neighbors for countless generations. Likewise, each has often divided over such issues as intratribal leadership, judicial concerns, economic matters, and foreign diplomacy. In the nineteenth century and afterward many groups divided into "progressives," those who wanted to move closer to such whiteman's ways as a market economy, and "traditionalists," those who wanted to maintain ancient ways as far as that was possible in a changing world. 1

In Contrary Neighbors, David La Vere, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, shows us how the forced removal westward of the Five Civilized Tribes to Indian Territory impacted not only the tribes themselves but also prairie and plains groups. The removal, he notes, caused intratribal disruption and reorganization and led to a long series of conferences, conflicts, and confrontations with other groups. Old alliances dissolved and new ones formed. . . .

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