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Devils in Disguise: The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s

Devils in Disguise: The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s Devils in Disguise The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s daniel m. cobb It's not a question of who's right and wrong. It's a question of who's got the power. Clyde Warrior (Ponca) I suppose this is not a paper in the strict sense of the word, so much as it is the random thoughts of a confused man in rather troubled times, as I suppose we all are. Robert K. Thomas (Cherokee), "Cross-Cultural Cannibalism" In the summer of 1963, Robert K. Thomas, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago and faculty member at Wayne State University's Monteith College, penned a letter to his advisor, the eminent anthropologist Sol Tax. Thomas had just arrived in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where he was to serve as the field director of a four-year cross-cultural education research project funded by the Carnegie Corporation in New York. After setting up his office at a local college, he went to visit Earl Boyd Pierce, general counsel of the Cherokee Nation. Sensing his host's apprehension, Thomas explained at length his reason for being there. The Carnegie Project research team would establish ties with the "tribal community"--people who spoke Cherokee as their first language http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Devils in Disguise: The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s

The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 31 (3) – Aug 7, 2007

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Devils in Disguise The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s daniel m. cobb It's not a question of who's right and wrong. It's a question of who's got the power. Clyde Warrior (Ponca) I suppose this is not a paper in the strict sense of the word, so much as it is the random thoughts of a confused man in rather troubled times, as I suppose we all are. Robert K. Thomas (Cherokee), "Cross-Cultural Cannibalism" In the summer of 1963, Robert K. Thomas, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago and faculty member at Wayne State University's Monteith College, penned a letter to his advisor, the eminent anthropologist Sol Tax. Thomas had just arrived in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where he was to serve as the field director of a four-year cross-cultural education research project funded by the Carnegie Corporation in New York. After setting up his office at a local college, he went to visit Earl Boyd Pierce, general counsel of the Cherokee Nation. Sensing his host's apprehension, Thomas explained at length his reason for being there. The Carnegie Project research team would establish ties with the "tribal community"--people who spoke Cherokee as their first language

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The American Indian QuarterlyUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Aug 7, 2007

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