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The Corporation and the Indian : Tribal Sovereignty and Industrial Civilization in Indian Territory, 1865-1907
author
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Miner, H. Craig.
publisher
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University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0806122056
print isbn13
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9780806122052
ebook isbn13
:
9780806171951
language
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English
subject
Indians of North America--Indian Territory--Economic conditions, Corporations--Indian Territory, Indians of North America--Indian Territory--Politics and government, Indian Territory--Economic conditions, Indians of North America--Land tenure--Indian Terr
publication date
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1989
lcc
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E78.I5M63 1989eb
ddc
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305.8/970766
subject
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Indians of North America--Indian Territory--Economic conditions, Corporations--Indian Territory, Indians of North America--Indian Territory--Politics and government, Indian Territory--Economic conditions, Indians of North America--Land tenure--Indian Terr
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The Corporation and the Indian
Tribal Sovereignty and Industrial Civilization in Indian Territory, 18651907
H. Craig Miner
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN AND LONDON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Miner, H. Craig. The corporation and the Indian. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Indians of North AmericaIndian TerritoryEconomic conditions. 2. Cor porationsIndian Territory. 3. Indians of North AmericaIndian Territory Tribal government. 4. Indian TerritoryEconomic conditions. 5. Indians of North AmericaIndian TerritoryLand tenure. I. Title. E78.I5M63 1989 305.8970766 88-40550 ISBN 0-8061-2205-6
Copyright 1976 by The Curators of the University of Missouri Press, Columbia. Assigned 1988 to the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. New edition copyright 1989 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First printing.
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Contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Abbreviations in Footnotes
xiii
I. The Invisible Hand
1
II. "They Take Stock in Our Destruction"
20
III. Capitalists and Strangers
38
IV. Coal and Ties: The Confrontation
58
V. The Territorial Ring
77
VI. "The Philistines Are Upon Us"
97
VII. The Cattle Syndicates
118
VIII. The Politics of Petroleum
143
IX. Cable Osage, New York
164
X. "A Corps of Clerks"
186
XI. The Syndicated Indian
207
Bibliography
217
Index
227
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Preface to the Paperback Edition
When the Civil War resolved the moral and economic arguments between North and South, Americans turned to the West and the "Indian Question." There were moral and economic issues there also, and they were not neatly separated. But nineteenth-century industrial civilizationrepresented by its most stunning flower, the corporationhad confidence that the "underdeveloped" West was a fine target for a magic mixture of Adam Smith and Jesus of Nazareth and that the desert and its people would shortly be transformed.
In practice, the accommodation between American Indians and American business was more complicated and more painful. It did not proceed according to the expectations that Americans had looking forward to it, nor, interestingly, did it conform to the models that they have created looking back on it through history. The role played by business in Indian policy has been neglected and misunderstood. The layperson was likely to believe that there was doubtless little contact, much less serious negotiation, between what they took to be blanketed tribesmen riding ponies, and cigar-smoking magnates in capes and private railroad cars.
However, it is only common sense to note that corporate representatives, government agents, and Indians did not play stereotyped roles, but rather acted as complete human beings with a full range of motives and a variety of interests and degrees of understanding. Indians could be devious speculators ready to sell the graves of their ancestors, and whites could be romantics about Indian survival, ready to protect the tribes even against themselves. "Robber Barons" could make effective deals to
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preserve tribal control, while "do-gooders" could destroy tribal sovereignty in exchange for supposed philosophical benefits that the Indians would appreciate in time.
Intercultural business negotiations represented a far more prevalent and satisfactory way of working toward coexistence than military force. Contracts were as effective as cannon, and much more palatable. In business development of the Indian and Indian lands, it was possible to argue that both white and Indian could benefit and share in the wealth that was created in the West through the application of the most clever of modern arts.
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