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The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma: A Legal History. By L. Susan Work. Foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xx + 334 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth.
In this fascinating and well-documented account, L. Susan Work illustrates how a myriad of federal laws and legal rulings limited tribal self-government and otherwise sought to dissolve the modern Seminole Nation. Along the way, the former attorney general of the Seminole Nation and a member of the Choctaw Nation explores the legal peculiarities of Seminole history and the ways that the federal government frequently chose to homogenize the Five Tribes into a single legal standard. Dissolution, of course, did not occur, and Work carefully reconstructs the...