Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma 1865 1907

by Murray R. Wickett

Wickett (history, Brock U., St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) offers an account of the interactions between Native Americans, African Americans, and whites in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories from the end of the Civil War until Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Using sources including government records, newspapers, diaries, oral history interviews, poems, and anecdotes, the author describes the changing racial policies aimed at segregating or integrating various groups, as well as the triadic, and metamorphosing, dynamics between them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2000