Description
The daughter of Oklahoma sodbusters, a student of Edward Everett Dale, and a Protegee of Frederick Jackson Turner, Angie Debo was an unlikely forerunner of the New Western History. Breaking with the followers of Turner, Debo viewed the westward movement of European Americans as conquest rather than settlement. Her studies on the Five tribes presented the Native American point of view and incorporated ethnological insights more than a decade before ethnology emerged as a separate field.
Shirley A. Leckie's biography of Debo is the first to assess the significance of Oklahoma's pioneering historian in the historiography of the American Indian, the writing of regional history, and the development of national law and court cases involving indigenous people. Leckie sheds light on Debo's family's background, her personality, and the impact of gender discrimination on her career. Finally, Leckie clarifies why Debo became a scholarly pioneer and, later, a warrior-scholar activist working on behalf of Native Americans during a period of changing Indian policy.
Author: Shirley A. Leckie
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 03/15/2002
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.48w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780806134383
ISBN10: 0806134380
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | United States | 19th Century