Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian (Oklahoma Western Biographies)
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Book Description
The daughter of Oklahoma sodbusters and a student of Edward Everett Dale Angie Debo was an unlikely forerunner of the New Western History. Breaking with the followers of Frederick Jackson 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 ethnohistory emerged as a separate field.
Shirley A. Leckie's biography of Debo is the first to assess the significance of Oklahoma's pioneering historian on 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.
About the Author
Shirley A. Leckie is Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, and is author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, co-author of Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H. Grierson and His Family (both published by the University of Oklahoma Press) and Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson.
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