And Still the Waters Run, Angie Debo
And Still the Waters Run, Angie Debo
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And Still the Waters Run
The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes

Author: Angie Debo, Amanda Cobb-Greetham

Narrator: Kate Harper

Unabridged: 18 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2022

Synopsis

A classic book now available on audio With narration by Kate Harper, who recounts the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Their political and economic status was guaranteed by the federal government—until American settlers arrived. Congress abrogated treaties that it had promised would last "as long as the waters run," and within a generation, the tribes were systematically stripped of their holdings, and were rescued from starvation only through public charity. Called a "work of art" by writer Oliver La Farge, And Still the Waters Run was so controversial when it was first published that Angie Debo was banned from teaching in Oklahoma for many years. Now with an incisive foreword by Amanda Cobb-Greetham, here is the acclaimed book that first documented the scandalous founding of Oklahoma on native land.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on November 14, 2019

Pride of place within the historiography of Indian Territory and early Oklahoma probably belongs to Angie Debo, who in this 1940 book exposed how unscrupulous businessmen victimized the most prominent victims of Indian Removal, the Five Civilized Tribes. Between 1906 and 1908, Oklahoma statehood and......more

Goodreads review by Gina on July 02, 2022

It is often hard to recommend older history books because of the dry styles and the paternalism, but they still fill in blanks. That is the situation here. So for the things that were filled in... 1. Many of the people claiming Cherokee blood in their past come from the time post-allotment time where......more

Goodreads review by Colette on January 25, 2026

I gave this book 3.5 stars—since it’s hard to read the data and the loads of historical information—but this record is important. I give Debo herself 5 stars. She had the courage to take this issue head-on and was persistent enough to see it through to publication, despite many challenges. I loved s......more

Goodreads review by Claire on June 09, 2021

I had to keep reminding myself that this was published in 1940 whenever allusion to "the present" was made. I knew,in general,about the Dawes Act; this book spells out in painful detail the economic ramifications of that shift from communal to private property, from traditional tribal organization t......more

Goodreads review by Derek on January 25, 2024

This was a very informative book, but not the most captivating. I particularly liked this work because the Osage are big discussion points right now because of the movie "Killers of the Flower Moon." The book does an ok job of discussing how this one incident was indicative of a much larger atrocity......more

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