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Angie Elbertha Debo January 30, — February 21, , [1] was an American historian who wrote 13 books and hundreds of articles about Native American and Oklahoma history.
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She earned a teacher's certificate and began teaching when she was Because Marshall did not have a high school until , Debo did not receive her high school diploma until , when she was 23 years old. She soon went on to the University of Oklahoma , where she earned an A.
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She taught history at Enid High School for four years [6] before taking time to study at the University of Chicago , where she earned a master's degree in international relations in Her master's thesis co-authored with her thesis supervisor J. Despite this early success, Debo said that she found it difficult to obtain a teaching position because most college history departments at the time would not consider hiring a woman.
Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association. Debo's next book was more controversial. Completed in , And Still the Waters Run detailed how, after their forced removal from the southeastern United States, the Five Civilized Tribes were systematically deprived in Indian Territory of the lands and resources granted to them by federal treaty. Debo wrote that these treaties were supposed to protect the tribal lands "as long as the waters run, as long as the grass grows"; but, after the Dawes Act enacted a policy of private ownership that was eventually forced on the tribes, the system was manipulated by whites to swindle the Indians out of their property.
Debo's charges were controversial; and many of the actors were still alive.
The book's conclusions were strongly resisted by some parties. She took a position writing for the Federal Writers Project in Oklahoma during the Great Depression , but her work for the travel guide, Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State, was extensively revised without her permission.
And Still the Waters Run: Brandt , the former director of the University of Oklahoma Press, had moved to Princeton and published the book there. Debo "never found a permanent position in an academic history department. Her work was seen as a rebuttal to the Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner , presenting a history of westward expansion based not on the ideal of manifest destiny but on the exploitation of the Native Americans.
She also continued to publish extensively. She wrote one novel, Prairie City, the Story of an American Community , based on the history of her hometown Marshall.
She finished her last history book, Geronimo: Debo died a few weeks later, on February 21, at the age of She left her papers, books, and literary rights to Oklahoma State University , [7] where she had worked as a librarian and researcher. Oklahoma is more than just another state.
It is a lens in which the long rays of time are focused into the brightest of light. In its magnifying clarity, dim facets of the American character stand more clearly revealed.
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