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Title: They Say the Wind Is Red: The Alabama Choctaw-Lost in Their Own Land by Jacqueline Anderson Matte, Vine, Jr. Deloria ISBN: 1-58838-079-3 Publisher: NewSouth Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Genealogy, Great History, Great Saga
Comment: This book tells the story of my family and other native peoples whose identities were essentially taken from them by Alabama politicians who over several decades mischaracterized them as "Cajans." My great grandfather (Seaborn Reid) and his extended family were living in post-Civil War Washington and Mobile Counties in southeast Alabama where, as free mixed Indian people, his ancestors had made their homes for many years, before the state began to deny their Indian heritage. Eventually, Seaborn would bring his whole family to Mississippi to escape the arbitrary and discriminatory treatment they experienced under Alabama's laws and practices respecting his people. Once in Mississippi, he and his clan were treated as white citizens, and his progeny slowly loss their awareness of their heritage as years went by. Until I read "They Say the Wind is Red," little of this history was known by anybody in the family.
So, whether your interest lies in the genealogy of Washington and Mobile County persons, or in the history of that region, or in what is a great telling of how native peoples' identity was taken from them and how they are now seeking to reclaim their rights as members of a tribal community, this is a must-read book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A people's determination to endure
Comment: Now in a newly revised edition which include a resource guide for Southeastern Indian genealogy, They Say The Wind Red: The Alabama Choctaw Lost In Their Own Land, by Jacqueline Anderson Matte (who testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Hearings for federal recognition of the Alabama Choctaw) is a compelling and accurate history of those Choctaw Indians who successfully remained in Alabama, when other southeastern Indian tribes were compelled to relocate to the American West during the 1830s. The Alabama Choctaw were a small band of Native Americans who were often mistaken as being either blacks or cajun, and who stayed in the swamps and pine woods of Mobile and Washington counties in spite of federal government's efforts to remove them. An invaluable addition to the growing library of Native American Studies, They Say The Wind Is Red is very highly recommended history of pride, love of land, danger, and a people's determination to endure and preserve their way of life in spite of severe and enduring hardships.
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Title: A Concise Encyclopedia of the Choctaw Indians: Past and Present by Keith A. Pounds ISBN: 0741413345 Publisher: Infinity Publishing.com Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Walking the Choctaw Road : Stories from Red People Memory by Tim Tingle ISBN: 0938317741 Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic. by Angie, Debo ISBN: 0806112476 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination by Shari M. Huhndorf ISBN: 0801486955 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians by H. B. Cushman, Angie Debo, Clara Sue Kidwell ISBN: 0806131276 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.35 |
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