Angie Debo by Shirley A Leckie

Angie Debo by Shirley A Leckie

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.

Shirley A. Leckie, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth and Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian.

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ISBN 13	9780806134383
ISBN 10	0806134380
Title	Angie Debo
Author	Shirley A Leckie
Series	The Oklahoma Western Biographies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Oklahoma Press
Year published	2002-03-30
Number of pages	256
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