Alvin Josephy survived Iow Jima and lived to be a hundred years old and perhaps the ultimate author of American Indians of this generation. His spirit left the winds in 2005 and the legacy of this writer lives on with many amounts of published work this man has done sharing his knowledge and telling the story of the indigenous people of North America. Mr Josephy contributed many understandings of the political and social relations between Indians and whites through the years and his book called "Now That The Buffalo's Gone" is one of the best works of the modern drive of Indian self-determination and battle against continual land grabs and forced assimilations of the twentieth century.
This book tells the story of seven tribes from their first contacts with Whites to their continuing wars against the US government of principle issues from spirituality to stereotypes American Indians must always endure. The direct assault on Indian land and water rights on their reservations takes a large fraction of this book and Josephy goes through his vast knowledge and explores the Indian gains and victories in the sixties seventies, and eighties. the author writes on the tribal alliances and working together often was key for many of these new gained victories.
sovereignty The Taos battle to retain rights to the Blue Lake which was held sacred and threatened by Theodore Roosevelt ad many plans for expansion of federal forests and reserves. The book goes into detail how the Taos were able to get 50000 acres returned to them during the Nixon administration and this book is full of modern legal battles between tribes and government often building projects on their reserves needing more land for newer development. many of these projects are resisted by Natives and complex legal battles delay or deny some of them. Not all of them end in modern day Indian victories as Mr Josephy demonstrates with the building of dams on Seneca lands and the eventual displacement of Seneca from ancestral lands in Allegany of New York. This book is a masterpiece for those interested in following legal land rights and battles in the courts more than the battlefields and everything fro fishing rights to water level retention of the Paiutes Pyramid lake is covered in this old but still salient book where many issues still reverberate today with the recent resistance to establish oil pipes in Lakota lands 
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