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213 Bibliographic Essay Sources for This Book Focusing a study of the Indian New Deal on its lesser-known contributors, the New York Jews Nathan Margold, Felix Cohen, and Lucy Kramer Cohen, brings in two substantial research fields, American Indian ethnohistory and Jewish studies. Behind the immediate sources are my years of living with Indian friends and colleagues and even more years of living as an American Jew. I’ve tried to provide citations for my statements here, but some are what I know from experience. The writing style is anthropological rather than historiographical, citations in text rather than in long endnotes. One spur to this book was the availability of Lucy Kramer Cohen’s papers, deposited in Yale’s Beinecke Library. Lucy lived nearly a hundred years, until 2007. She had put her husband’s personal papers in the Beinecke years before. Her own joined them and were opened to researchers in 2010. For a few years before that, her niece, Nancy Kramer Bickel, worked through the papers, held by the family, to create a DVD biography , A Twentieth Century Woman: Lucy Kramer Cohen 1907–2007. Bickel generously shared her film transcripts and photos, answered my queries, and brought her cousins, Gene Cohen Tweraser and Karen Cohen Holmes, Felix and Lucy’s daughters , into the discussions. These rounds of e-mails and Bickel’s film illuminated much in the Beinecke boxes of Lucy’s papers. Complementing the Cohen-Kramer cousins’ knowledge has been Dalia Tsuk (Mitchell), biographer of Felix Cohen: Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism (Cornell University Press, 2007). Rounding out sources on Felix Cohen is his widow’s compendium of a selection of his principal papers: The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers of Felix S. Cohen, edited by Lucy Kramer Cohen (Yale University Press, 1960). The foundation for analyzing the Indian New Deal is a combination of American First Nations ethnohistory and historical studies of US Indian policy. For the ethnohistory , I would refer readers to my textbook, North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account (Prentice-Hall, three editions, 1981, 1992, 2006). It includes bibliographies for each culture area and for contemporary affairs. For US Indian policy, there is Francis 214 • Bibliographic Essay Paul Prucha’s The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (University of Nebraska Press, two-volume full publication 1984, paperback without the full documentation 1986). It has been my great fortune to know Fr. Prucha as a colleague at Marquette University, to be able to ask him to clarify confusing events and documents (which abound in Indian policy records) and to test my interpretations by asking his opinions. Similarly, it has been my good fortune that Milwaukee is also the home of another outstanding student of American Indian affairs, anthropologist Nancy Oestrich Lurie. Like Fr. Prucha, Dr. Lurie has been a sounding board and source of facts and clarifications. Regarding the Indian New Deal, her report, as Sol Tax’s principal assistant, on the American Indian Chicago Conference, “The Voice of the American Indian: Report on the American Indian Chicago Conference,” Current Anthropology 2(5):478–500 (1961), and, equally drawn from participant observation, “The Indian Claims Commission,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 436:97–110 (1978), are essential sources. Leading up to the Indian New Deal was more than a century of US policy of dispossessing American First Nations. Anthony Wallace’s Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans (Belknap, 1999), Robert J. Miller’s Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), Lindsay Robertson’s Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Lisa Ford’s Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836 (Harvard University Press, 2010) are good sources on the policy of dispossession. Robert A. Williams Jr.’s The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest (Oxford University Press, 1992) places US policy and language in the broad frame of European concepts of conquest. The Indian New Deal itself had several phases. First was the 1920s shift away from dispossession, marked by the United States unilaterally bestowing citizenship in 1924 upon US-born Indians. Tisa Wenger’s We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), Jane F. Smith and Robert M...

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