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The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribereviewed by Rodney L. Brod - 1998 Title: The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe Author(s): Joel Spring Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ ISBN: 080582247X, Pages: , Year: 1996 Search for book at Amazon.com A trader and son of French parents in North
America, Louis Leflore entered into a polygamous relationship with
two mixed-blood sisters, nieces of the famous Choctaw chief
Pushmataha, who was commissioned by Andrew Jackson to serve in the
War of 1812 as a general in the U.S. Army.
Begun as a personal quest to recover his Native American roots,
Joel Spring’s project evolved into an interesting and
valuable book that describes the intertwining of his own
mixed-blood Choctaw ancestors and over one hundred years of history
of that tribe’s dealings with the U.S. government. As often
happens when tracing one’s American Indian "family tree,"
along with some notable gaps in the records, the author discovers
the insidious and disastrous impacts that government and Protestant
missionary civilization and educational policies had on his own
family and tribe. Sketching important colonial and tribal cultural
differences, the author then describes early U.S. government
policies and continuing searches for means of gaining valued
southern, and later Oklahoma, tribal land holdings, including... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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