| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1 | The History Cooperative

*Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process*. By Mark Edwin Miller. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. viii + 355 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95.)
Mark Edwin Miller has authored an important book that should be the cause of great discomfort for us all. Forgotten Tribes advances the first monographic treatment of the Federal Acknowledgment Process—the labyrinthine system through which unrecognized Native peoples attempt to secure acknowledgment as legal-political entities by the United States Government.	1
A rigorously analytical introduction and two lucidly written chapters tracing the historical development of the tribal acknowledgment process from the eighteenth century to the present provide a helpful introduction to one of the thorniest issues in Native America today. These initial chapters provide the context necessary for the volume to be accessible to interested lay readers, students, and specialists alike.	. . .

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