[Review of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle

David Hamlin, the Executive Director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union at the time, recounts in this book the story of the battle over attempts by the National Socialist Party of America, led by John Collin, to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois, in 1977. To the ACLU, this was a classic First Amendment case (p. 53) of the sort it has regularly handled, but it developed into a cause celebre which eventually resulted in temporary damage to the ACLU in Illinois and the nation. A straightforward, factual account, unfortunately without footnotes, which tries to describe all aspects of the conflict, the book is written in a lucid style

[Review of] American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Vol. 7, No. 1 (1983)

Indian water rights is the subject of most of a Special Water Rights Issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, published by the American Indian Studies Center of the University of California, Los Angeles. The issue provides valuable materials on this issue, although it is marred by frequent typographical errors (e.g., consistently spelling McCarran wrong in the key article)

[Review of] Kenneth R. Philp, ed. Indian Self-Rule: First-Hand Accounts of Indian-White Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan

This book is a summary of a truly historic conference held at Sun Valley, Idaho, from August 17 to 20, 1983. Organized by the Institute of the American West, under the leadership of E. Richard Hart, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., and Vine Deloria, Jr., the conference brought together over 400 persons interested in Indian affairs from around the country; included were most of the people who do research and write on contemporary Indian affairs and many of the participants in past and present Indian affairs. For example, present were four past Commissioners of Indian Affairs -- Robert L. Bennett, Alexander McNabb, Philleo Nash, and Ben Reifel

[Review of] Jesse Green, Ed. Zuñi: Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing

Jesse Green, a professor of English at Chicago State University, has brought together in this volume, with appropriate explanatory materials, selections from the published and unpublished writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing. The collection deals with several things: autobiographical materials (about 120 pages); description of Zuñi life and beliefs (about 220 pages); and materials about the relation between Zuñi and White America (much of the autobiographical section, a brief description of visits to the East by several Zuñi, most of the brief foreword by anthropologist Fred Eggan, and much of Green’s more than 60 pages of introductions.) The volume is handsomely illustrated, with six photographs and over 60 drawings of aspects of Zuñi and its life; it also has maps of Zuñi and the Southwest and a selected bibliography which is evenly divided between works by or about Cushing and works about Zuñi. Unhappily, it does not have an index

[Review of] Russell Thornton. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492

A sociologist, Thornton has written a thorough and balanced demographic account of Native American societies in what became the United States from before the arrival of Europeans to the present

[Review of] Frank W. Porter III, ed. Strategies for Survival: American Indians in the Eastern United States

The subject of this book is several groups of Native Americans in the Eastern United States and their reactions to Euro-American intrusion. There are good introductory and concluding chapters which discuss the general situation of many of these groups, along with five case studies by various authors

[Review of] William E. Unrau and H. Craig Miner. Tribal Dispossession and the Ottawa Indian University Fraud

Described by historians William E. Unrau and H. Craig Miner as a case study of manipulation and fraud, this book tells the story of the loss of an entire reservation belonging to the Ottawa Indians by a series of events which led eventually to the dissolution of the tribe itself in the 1950s. Several bands of Ottawa Indians living in what is now Michigan and Ohio were deprived of their lands there by a series of treaties forcing land cessions and by allotment of their lands. Three bands of Ottawa Indians were relocated to a reservation in northeastern Kansas in the 1830s ; eventually, all of this land was lost to them and they were forced to move to Oklahoma, where they purchased land. Several decades later, they were forcibly allotted, and by 1927 there were only two of the original Ottawa allottees still in possession of the lands they had acquired by allotment

[Review of] Thomas Wildcat Alford, Civilization and the Story of the Absentee Shawnees

Thomas Wildcat Alford was born a Shawnee and died a white man. While an oversimplification, this is not an unfair summary of his memoir, ”told to” Florence Drake. A reprint of the 1936 edition, the book has a brief preface by author Angie Debo (which, however, has little information)

The Indian Reorganization Act in Nevada: Creation of the Yomba Reservation

Prior to the 1930s, a small minority of Nevada Indians lived on reservations that provided them a means of livelihood. The largest number of Indians in the state did not live on any kind of trust territory at all