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Autumn, 2003
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Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830. By Greg O'Brien. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxviii + 158 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00,£34.50.)
      European and Euro-American expansion forced indigenous leaders to make important choices for themselves and their people. Two eighteenth-century Choctaw men, Taboca and Franchimastabé, represent the different choices that Native leaders made. Taboca remained wedded to tradition, seeking power through the mystical realm and gaining authority through knowledge of the esoteric. Franchimastabé welcomed the new opportunities offered by the market economy and retained power through economic control. This transformation, from a spiritual to a material basis for Native leadership, is the primary focus of Greg O'Brien's valuable book. . . .
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