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Thanks
go also to Sheldon Harsel, Alex Edelstein,
Vernon Carstensen, and Russel Barsh, as well as William
E. Ames, all of the University of Washington, who provided
invaluable criticism, and who were willing to listen to ideas
for which other academics might have threatened to bust me
down to a B.A. and hustle me off to the nut house. Roberto
F. Maestas, a Chicano Pueblo, director of Seattle's El
Centro de la Raza and compadre co-author of many
years, also helped provide focus to the many drafts of this
book. Alvin Josephy, Jr., also deserves many thanks for his
criticisms and opinions of an early draft, as does Bruce
Brown.
Invaluable
aid also was given by many librarians and
archivists, some of whom work at the University of
Washington Libraries, the New York City Public Library,
the American Philosophical Society, the Library of
Congress (General Collection and Manuscript Division),
the Department of Interior's Library, the Newberry
Library, in Chicago, and the Smithsonian Institution's
National Anthropological Archives.
Many
thanks go also to my aunt and uncle, who put up
this savage from the mountains of western America in a
style to which he ought never to become accustomed in
Washington, D.C., and to Judy Ruben, who ensured that I
would stay alive on meager means on Manhattan Island,
not an easy task these days.
To
all of you, and to Lovell Thompson and Mark Saxton
of Gambit: you wouldn't be seeing this book if it weren't for
your part in making it possible.
-- B.E.J.
Like most books, this one would never have been written
without the encouragement, criticism, skepticism, and
selfless devotion of many people. First among those people
are the Indians who challenged me to find in the white
man's archives documentary proof to buttress Indian oral
history. Thanks go to John Crazy Bear, a Seneca whose
ancestors helped make an American of Benjamin Franklin,
and to Phil Lucas, who provided early help with research
leads, as well as Vine Deloria, Jr., whose encouragement
(not to mention his many books) helped inspire me.