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book served as an excellent resource for learning about the history of Oklahoma, It starts off with giving a background on how the first Native Americans arrived in the area and the different cultures that began to take shape.
From the early Native Americans to the first Europeans up through statehood to about thes, this book provides an excellent insight to how Oklahoma came to be.
The only reason that I did not give this bookwas simply because throughout the book there would occasionally be a remark made that gave the impression that you already had some sort of background knowledge about Oklahoma.
There may be a reference to a place or person that author assumed that the reader already knew about and therefore did not need to give any additional information.
So my advice would be to get a little background info about Oklahoma, or at least be prepared to go and do a little bit of on the side research.
Otherwise an excellent resource for anyone looking to learn about the history and culture of Oklahoma.
The unfortunate beliefs of older times are not my business, I often read and enjoy older books, and don't usually nitpick the prejudices of the authors.
But this book takes an inexplicable turn about two thirds in, that I am a little mystified by.
The Native American simply disappears, This is all the more disturbing because the bibliographical essay at the back makes it clear that the author, Arrell Morgan Gibson, was a scholar of Native American history, who authored tomes on a number of tribes.


Up until pageor so, I was enjoying this book immensely, Gibson clearly loved his state, and was proud of the fact that it has a more interesting history than most MidWest and Western states.
Most states were quickly ethnically cleansed of their native populations, as soon as enough white men became interested in the territory in

question.
What made Oklahoma different, is that it was the destination of those ethnic cleansing processes, Most of the various trails of tears ended in Oklahoma, Oklahoma almost survived as "Indian territory" into theth century, The statehood process, completed in, did strip the dozens of tribes of many of their powers, but it left many Native Americans in possession of their land, and they remain a formidable force in Oklahoma politics and business to this day.


So four of the five centuries of Oklahoma history that Gibson documents are chiefly about the Native American experience.
I found his approach informative and sympathetic, if a bit dry, There was little to complain about beyond a vaguely racist turn of phrase or two, especially when you consider that this book isyears old.
The book lays out the complexity of the settling of the United States in great detail.
It's much more complicated than the "Cowboys and Indians" cliche we get from the movies, Over four centuries of engagement, many tribes chose differing levels of accommodation with European culture, Christianity, and even, unfortunately, slaveholding.
Gibson sheds light on the terribly named "Five Civilized Tribes" that held the majority of the power in Indian Territory.
I found myself looking forward to how he would describe the dynamics of the emergence of Oklahoma as a hybrid indigenous, European state in theth century.


It's at this point that the Native American disappears, Gibson mentions that the tribes played a part in the state's founding conventions, and then they simply disappear completely.
The Oklahoma, a History of Five Centuries's lastpages are a super dry account of "This governor was elected, he did/did not get along with the legislature, the issues were.
. . the next governor was elected, etc, etc. ". Civil Rights for African Americans were among the issues covered, largely unobjectionably, though the description of the famous Tulsa massacre at Black Wall Street, was too short and bothsidesish.
There is a lot of interesting information in these pages, such as the fact that Alcohol prohibition survived into thes in Oklahoma, but I kept asking myself, where are the Native Americans They had been at the center of the Oklahoma story foryears, I expected at least some description of how they experienced theth century.
But there was none. A standard textbook for Oklahoma History, The drama and the excitement of the Oklahoma story unfold from the prehistoric residency of Clovis man and Folsom man and the Spanish and French explorations in the early historic period through the removal of many diverse Indian tribes to the federallydesignated Indian Territory and into the modern period of Oklahoma politics and economic advancement.
Betrayal of the Indians, racism, and political corruption are told in their entirety, The achivements of the state and its people are related as the story progresses through the early years of statehood and the hardships of opening pioneer farms and building new townes.
The effects of the Great Depression are told, revealing that Oklahomans were coping with drought and depression long before the rest of the nation.
Later chapters tell of the modern period in Oklahoma, when its politics became more sophisicated, when its economic base expanded as the result of recruitment of industry to the Sun Belt, and when science and technology opend the new frontiers of the space age.
Of equal importance to modernday Oklahomans is the successful growth of the humanities and the arts, with increasing appreciation of the state's rich Indian heritiage.
Enlivened by many illustrations and maps and written in an easy, conversational style, Arrell Morgan Gibson was a historian and author specializing in the history of the state of Oklahoma.
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