Indian Resilience and Rebuilding: Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments This book is a part of the Modern American West series edited by Richard Etulain (now retired) and David Wrobel. I have known both as friends for many years. Finally, I am happy to say thank you, Dick and David, for your patience while I produced this book, and I hope that it meets the expectations of the series. Patti Hartman at the University of Arizona Press, whom I have known for many years, has since retired, and we have had many conversations over the years. I am grateful to her for starting the series and to Kristen Buckles, who has inherited this book project. Thank you, Kristen, for supervising this book into print. I am also grateful to Kathryn Conrad, Allyson Carter, Joshua Harrison, Miriam Warren, Lela Scott MacNeil, Abby Mogollon, Leigh McDonald, and others at the press who I have communicated with to improve this book better. I want to thank Michael Haggett, production editor at Westchester Publishing Services and copyeditor Trish Watson for making my written thoughts more clear. I am indebted to external readers Kathleen P. Chamberlain and Paul C. Rosier for their insightful comments for making this a better book. Thank you Linda Gregoris for the indexing. In a personal way I have lived half of the twentieth century, and I feel that my own family and relatives are a part of this book. I have lived in the modern American West for most all of my life. I am a full-blood, with each grandparent coming from a different tribe—Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole. My autobiographical instinct is a part of the feelings of being Indian in these pages. x · Acknowledgments I am grateful for the staff at Archives II at College Park, Maryland, for their help during my research trips to examine the holdings of the Richard Nixon Presidential Materials Project papers. In examining documents and accounts of Indian affairs in the 1970s, I am grateful for the help of the staff in the Special Collections of the I.D. Weeks Library at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion. I appreciate the help received from Diane Covill and Mary Eitreim of the Special Collections, and from my colleagues and friends Dr. Herbert Hoover of the History Department and Mr. Imre Meszaros, director of the library, and my good friend the late Dr. Leonard Bruguier, former director of the American Indian Institute. I am also grateful for the assistance and advice on researching from Catherine Sewell, Greg Cumming, and Michael Duggan of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library at Simi Valley, California, and Susan Naulty of the Richard Nixon Presidential Materials Project. I am appreciative of the assistance from Gary Lundell of the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the Allen Library at the University of Washington, Seattle. I am grateful for the assistance from Karen J. Underhill of the Special Collections and Archives of the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff . I am grateful to her staff members, Bill Mullane, Bob Coody, Jolene Manus, Stacey Collins, and Deb Dohm. I am grateful for the assistance at the George Bush Presidential Library at College Station, Texas, from Robert Holweiss, Melissa Walker, and John Laster and at the William Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, from Dana Simmons and Adam Bergfeld. I want to thank several people for their assistance with photographs for this book: Curator John R. Lovett, Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma; Eunice Kahn, Navajo Nation Museum; Claire-Lise Benaud; Center for Southwest Research/Special Collection at the University of New Mexico; R. Sean Evans, Cline Library Special Collections and Archives at Northern Arizona University; Betty Murphy, Heard Museum as well as Neil E. Millican, Library Specialist in the ASU Archives and Special Collections and Robert Spindler, University Archivist and Head of Archives and Special Collections at ASU. I am also grateful to Michelle Martin who introduced me to the art of taking better photographs for this book and I want to thank Thomas Jonas for making such great maps for this project. On a personal level, I am grateful for the advice and mentoring of Father Francis Paul Prucha, Reginald Horsman, and H. Wayne Morgan for their influence in forming me as a historian in my early years. At present, I would like to express gratitude to my current graduate students who have Acknowledgments · xi listened to my seminar thoughts...