- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press; New edition edition (March 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0806131330
- ISBN-13: 978-0806131337
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,867,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This well-crafted history chronicles the lives and fortunes of the Chiricahua Apache, an Arizona warrior band removed from its lands in 1886 after Geronimo's famous uprising. Treated as prisoners of war, even though most were noncombatants, the Chiricahuas were forcibly moved to Florida and later to Oklahoma. They were then officially merged with the Mescalero Apache band and given a small reservation in New Mexico. Seemingly consigned to oblivion as a distinct people, the Chiricahua were restored in some measure in the late 1940s, when President Harry Truman ordered the creation of a commission to consider Native American claims to lost lands. After years of legal wrangling, in the late 1970s the federal government settled with the Chiricahuas, paying, the authors maintain, far less than the Indians deserved after decades of imposed hardship. Lieder and Page tell the story well, offering an important contribution to recent Native American history.
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It is well known that the relations between Native Americans and European settlers were conflict-ridden; what is not so well known is the story of the Indians Claims Commission, established in 1946 as a judicial body to hear the grievances of Indian tribes. Despite its good intentions, the commission had mixed results by the time it closed in 1978. Tribes had their day in court but few received substantial recompense. Lieder, an Indian legal affairs expert, and Page, a novelist and writer on Hopi culture, have written an excellent account using the case of the Chiricahua Apaches and the suit they filed with the commission. The authors are not trailblazers here; Harvey Rosenthal published the first account of the commission in Their Day in Court: A History of the Indian Claims Commission (Garland, 1990). Rosenthal's book is a more technical legal account, however, and gives much less coverage to the significant issue of Indian land claims than Lieder and Page's work. Highly recommended for academic and larger public libraries.?Charles V. Cowling, Drake Memorial Lib., SUNY at Brockport
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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This review is from: Wild Justice: The People of Geronimo Vs. the United States (Paperback)
On February 22, 1999, just a few days after I finished reading this thorough and thoroughly enjoyable history of the Indian Claims Commission, Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in DC found Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in civil contempt for failure to produce government records in a lawsuit involving oversight of Indian trust accounts. According to the New York Times: "Legal historians say that it is the first time two Cabinet officers have been held in contempt simultaneously." As a general reader who is neither a lawyer nor an historian, I was impressed with the clear presentation of very complex legal issues. The authors also provide lessons in social and cultural anthropology and respect for the environment. But most of all, I appreciated the discussion and analysis of the ethical issues related to racism, genocide, and avarice---and the limitations and inadequacies of litigation and legislation when seeking remedies for inhumane treatment of our fellow human beings. This history truly is as contemporary and universal as today's news from Rwanda, Bosnia, the Middle East, Uganda, or Jasper, Texas.
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This review is from: Wild Justice: The People of Geronimo Vs. the United States (Paperback)
On February 22, 1999, just a few days after I finished reading this thorough and thoroughly enjoyable history of the Indian Claims Commission, Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in DC found Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in civil contempt for failure to produce government records in a lawsuit involving oversight of Indian trust accounts. According to the New York Times: "Legal historians say that it is the first time two Cabinet officers have been held in contempt simultaneously." As a general reader who is neither a lawyer nor an historian, I was impressed with the clear presentation of very complex legal issues. The authors also provide lessons in social and cultural anthropology and respect for the environment. But most of all, I appreciated the discussion and analysis of the ethical issues related to racism, genocide, and avarice---and the limitations and inadequacies of litigation and legislation when seeking remedies for inhumane treatment of our fellow human beings. This history truly is as contemporary and universal as today's news from Rwanda, Bosnia, the Middle East, Uganda, or Jasper, Texas.
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