The Mashpee Indians: Tribe on Trial (Iroquois & Their Neighbors) - Hardcover

Campisi, Jack

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9780815625179: The Mashpee Indians: Tribe on Trial (Iroquois & Their Neighbors)

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ISBN 10: 0815625170 ISBN 13: 9780815625179

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr, 1991

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About the Author:

Jack Campisi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College. He has appeared as an expert witness before many state and federal government Indian Affairs committees, including the Mashpee Tribe of Indians case. He is the coeditor of Extending the Rafters: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Iroquoian Studies and The Oneida Indian Experience (Syracuse University Press).

Review:

An engrossing and well-written account of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's struggle for federal recognition. He discusses at great length the failure of the American judicial system to recognize and recompense a group of native people whose land was taken away not only in the far reaches of America's past, but also as recently as 1970. (Library Journal)

A sophisticated and fascinating account of the Mashpee Indians of Massachusetts. The book primarily describes the failure of these people to be recognized as a formal Indian tribe. . . . Raises profound questions regarding the legal process as applied to individual and tribal identification. (Choice)

This book is long overdue. Let's hope that this will bring about a change in attitudes about Indian rights. (Russell Peters, Past Presi�dent of the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.)

Well researched and highly informative. (American Indian Culture and Research Journal)

This book belongs in every school and public library as a learning resource. (Small Press)

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