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Book SynopsisExamines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions. This book looks specifically at Alabama and Louisiana, places of intensive political activity during the civil rights era and increasing Indian visibility and tribal reorganization in the decades that followed.
Trade Review“Bates’s
The Other Movement makes an original and important contribution to the field of American Indian history in the Southeast. In particular, there currently are no published studies detailing the origins of state-tribal relations in Alabama and Louisiana, the administration of state Indian commissions in these states, and inter-tribal politics and conflicts that these bodies often engender. The author does an excellent job using statements of Indian leaders to illuminate issues important to their communities.”— Mark Edwin Miller, author of
Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the
Federal Acknowledgment Process“While much attention has been paid to the movement against the injustice of the Jim Crow system in the southern US, Native Americans have complicated the binary racial order in ways that have been systematically erased. In this fine study, Bates highlights the sophisticated ways that Native Americans in Louisiana and Alabama fought to make visible and strengthen their continued existence in the mid- and late-20th century. Her greatest contribution is the way she emphasizes the unique regional history and locates power within two arenas that have been typically contested or dismissed by many federally recognized tribes elsewhere: the state-tribal relationship and the federal recognition process. . . . Bates’s respectful, meticulous analysis makes this a valuable addition to the scholarship on southeastern Native American history. Highly recommended.”—
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