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Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal. By James R. Atkinson (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. xii + 366 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95, paper.)

      In Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal, former National Park Service historian and archaeologist James Atkinson brings his considerable familiarity of Chickasaw documentary and archaeological evidence to bear on a tribal group whose relationship to early American history remains salient. This study turns on the notion that the relative small size of the group within a relatively confined geographic region led to greater cooperation among its disparate factions that engendered unity, viability, and permanence even to the current incarnation of the tribe in Oklahoma. . . .

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