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Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism: The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959–1970

Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism: The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination... Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959­1970 valerie lambert The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a tribe in which I am enrolled, is headquartered in southeastern Oklahoma and has a tribal citizenry of just over 175,000. Our tribal government currently compacts almost all of our tribe's Bureau of Indian Affairs (bia) and Indian Health Service (ihs) program funding and runs dozens of tribal businesses that today fund more than 80 percent of our tribal programs and services.1 More than six thousand people work for our tribe, which is headed by a chief, a twelve-member tribal council, and three tribal judges.2 Our people rebuilt our formal tribal political structures and institutions in the 1970s and 1980s, more than a half-century after the Curtis Act of 1898, the Supplemental Agreement of 1902, and the Five Tribes Act of 1906 eviscerated our elaborate nineteenth-century polity and allotted most of our land. Little scholarship exists about the era of our tribal history that spans the years between allotment in the early 1900s and the tribal nation-building of the 1970s, the era that is the focus of this article. Despite the dearth of scholarship about this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism: The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959–1970

Lambert, Valerie.
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 31 (2) – May 10, 2007
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Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959­1970 valerie lambert The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a tribe in which I am enrolled, is headquartered in southeastern Oklahoma and has a tribal citizenry of just over 175,000. Our tribal government currently compacts almost all of our tribe's Bureau of Indian Affairs (bia) and Indian Health Service (ihs) program funding and runs dozens of tribal businesses that today fund more than 80 percent of our tribal programs and services.1 More than six thousand people work for our tribe, which is headed by a chief, a twelve-member tribal council, and three tribal judges.2 Our people rebuilt our formal tribal political structures and institutions in the 1970s and 1980s, more than a half-century after the Curtis Act of 1898, the Supplemental Agreement of 1902, and the Five Tribes Act of 1906 eviscerated our elaborate nineteenth-century polity and allotted most of our land. Little scholarship exists about the era of our tribal history that spans the years between allotment in the early 1900s and the tribal nation-building of the 1970s, the era that is the focus of this article. Despite the dearth of scholarship about this

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Published: May 10, 2007

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