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American Indian Tribal Governments (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
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by Sharon O'Brien
Sales Rank: 876360
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Cover Type: Paperback with 368 pages
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press September 1993
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0806125640
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0806125640
Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Reader Reviews
This book focuses on six tribes, the Mississippi Choctaw, Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee), Muscogee (Creek), Lakota (Teton Sioux), Pueblo, and the Yakima. This is a nice mix of tribes from all regions of the country except Alaska. These are all relatively large tribes, so the experiences of smaller tribes aren't really reflected here. O'Brien emphasizes the history of all American Indians as well as the history of her six featured tribes. These histories are fine for a textbook, but many of these stories are better told elsewhere. It would be sad to rely on this book for a history of Wounded Knee, for example. She emphasizes formal government structures of these tribes and not how politics really works on each reseravation. This would be like presenting the powers of the US presidency without giving examples of how Reagan, Clinton or Bush used these powers in recent years, and how these presidents struggled with Congress and other players to increase their powers. There are merits to O'Brien's purely structural approach but I would prefer more discussion of intratribal debates and politics. For a much more political book that also includes a discussion of formal government structures, I'd recommend Lopach et al, Tribal Government Today. As you'd expect from a textbook, O'Brien emphasizes factual material. She writes well, so that this material is not dry. She is politically sympathetic to the tribes but does not have any ideological axe to grind. She wrote her study with the cooperation of the tribes she studied, and I would think that they would be happy with how they are treated in the book. There are also extensive photographs, which help maintain reader interest. The margins include many quotations from other authors or from relevant statutes or treaties. While the pictures were a welcome feature, I found the textual marginalia distracting. All in all, a perfectly fine textbook.
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