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ANGIE DEBO in HER OWN WORDS Editor's Note the 445-Page Document Titled ANGIE DEBO IN HER OWN WORDS Editor’s Note The 445-page document titled, “Angie Debo In Her Own Words” is a compilation of excerpts from Dr. Angie Debo’s writings, oral interviews, correspondence, and diaries all faithfully transcribed for use by researchers of the history of the American West and for anyone interested in the long life and remarkable career of a ground-breaking scholar considered by many as “Oklahoma’s Greatest Historian.” Her writings include her family’s history, genealogy, and their stories of pioneering on the frontier. The transcribed oral interviews are from a series of interviews conducted by scholars Glenna Matthews and Gloria Valencia-Weber in preparation for the documentary titled Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo, aired on PBS. Most of the correspondence consists of dozens of letters exchanged between Dr. Debo and her close personal friend and professional mentor, Dr. Edward Everett Dale, over a nearly fifty-year period from 1925 to 1972. Diary entries beginning with her first diary kept as an eight-year old girl in 1898 and continuing through 1949 offer insights into Dr. Debo’s struggles to come of age and to forge a career as an academic historian and author. Brief supplemental diary entries from 1953 reveal her pride and excitement as Oklahoma State University opened the library named for its first dean, Edmon Low, and to whose archives she bequeathed her papers. Additionally, “Angie Debo In Her Own Words” contains a brief biographical sketch, a timeline of her life, a chronology of her major publications, and a select bibliography of books, articles, and reviews that examine her life and scholarly legacy. Enjoy! Kurt Anderson, PhD 1 Angie Debo: A Biographical Sketch Angie Debo was born in Beattie, Kansas, on January 30, 1890, moved to Marshall, Oklahoma Territory, with her family in 1899, taught rural schools at age 16, graduated from Marshall High School in 1913 and from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1918 with a degree in history. She taught history at Enid High School for four years, received a master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1924, taught at West Texas State Teachers College from 1924-1933, received a doctorate from OU in 1933, and served as curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, 1933-1934. In subsequent years she was primarily a researcher and writer of books on the Five Civilized Tribes, Geronimo, and the history of Native Americans and of Oklahoma. She also was a teacher, pastor, and director of the Federal Writers Project in Oklahoma. From 1947-1955 she was curator of maps at Oklahoma A&M College. After retirement in 1955 she wrote, lectured, traveled, researched family histories, served on the boards of directors of the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Association on American Indian Affairs, made surveys for the Indian Rights Association, and lobbied for land rights for Indians in Alaska and for water rights for the Havasupai and Pima in Arizona. She authored nine books, edited three, co-authored another, wrote many chapters, articles, and forewords, and presented numerous papers on Native Americans and Oklahoma history. She died on February 21, 1988, at the age of 98, and was buried in North Cemetery, Marshall, Oklahoma. The Angie Debo Papers Inclusive Dates: 1890-1987 Extent: 92.25 Linear Feet (59 records cartons, 3 document boxes, 13 oversized boxes, 10 map folders [all in storage]; 85 reels of microfilm [available through the Archives]; 593 books and furniture [in the Angie Debo Room, OSU Library] Scope and Content: The collection consists of research material, including manuscripts of publications and presentations by Debo and related legal papers, correspondence, notes, etc. Unpublished manuscripts include some by Debo as well as Grant Foreman’s The American Indian and the Law and World War II correspondence, and memorabilia, diaries, articles, newspaper clippings, awards, books, maps, and photographs dealing with Debo’s writings and personal life. And finally, there is some furniture from her home in Marshall. 2 Angie Debo: A Chronology Originally authored by Heather M. Lloyd. Updated and expanded by Kurt Anderson, Ph.D. 1890 January 30. Born near Beattie, Kansas, to Edward P. Debo and Lina E. Cooper Debo. 1899 November. Moved to Marshall, Oklahoma Territory. 1902 Received common school diploma. 1906 Attended one year of high school. 1907-1910 Obtained teacher’s certificate and taught in rural schools near Marshall, Oklahoma. 1913 Graduated from Marshall High School. 1913-1915 Taught in rural schools near Marshall, Oklahoma. 1915-1918 Student at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. 1918 Received Bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Oklahoma, Norman. 1918-1919 Principal, Village School, North Enid, Oklahoma. 1919-1923 Taught history at Senior High School, Enid, Oklahoma. 1920 Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society. 1923 Received Community Service Certificate, Enid, Oklahoma. 1923-1924 Graduate student at the University of Chicago. 1924 Received the Master’s degree in history from the University of Chicago. 1924-1933 Member of the history department, West Texas State Teachers College, Canyon, Texas. Taught in a high school associated with the college. Studied toward her doctorate at the University of Oklahoma and worked on her dissertation. 1924 Publication of Debo’s master’s thesis, co-authored with J. Fred Rippy, The Historical Background of the American Policy of Isolation. 1927 Inducted into Pi Gamma Mu, national social science honor society. 1931 Death of her brother, Edwin Debo. 3 1933 Received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in history from the University of Oklahoma. Dissertation entitled History of the Choctaw Nation: From the Close of the Civil War to the End of the Tribal Period. 1933-1934 Curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, West Texas State Teachers College, Canyon, Texas. 1934 Publication of Debo’s doctoral dissertation as The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic. Began a career as a freelance writer. Moved back to Marshall, Oklahoma. 1934-1936 Conducted research and completed manuscript for And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes, funded in part by a grant from the Social Science Research Council. 1935 The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association. Taught summer school at Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College, Nagagdoches, Texas. 1937-1939 Researched and wrote The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians, funded in part by a grant from the Social Science Research Council. 1937 Participated in editing and conducting interviews for the WPA Indian-Pioneer Project which resulted in the Indian Pioneer Papers. 1940-1941 Supervised the Federal Writers Project in Oklahoma. 1940 Publication of And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes after some revisions made to the manuscript. 1941 Publication of The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians. Publication of Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State, a product of the Federal Writers Project in Oklahoma. 1942 Named state’s “Outstanding Woman” by Theta Sigma Phi, honorary professional journalism fraternity for women, Oklahoma City chapter. Alfred A. Knopf History Fellow. 1943 Publication of Tulsa: From Creek Town to Oil Capital. 1944 Publication of Prairie City: The Story of an American Community, Debo’s only work of fiction, based on the history of Marshall and nearby towns. Death of her father, Edward P. Debo. Licensed as a local preacher for the United Methodist Church in Marshall. 1946 Taught summer school at Oklahoma A&M College. 1946-1947 Rockefeller Fellow, University of Oklahoma. 1947-1955 Served on the faculty of the Oklahoma A&M College Library as curator of maps. 4 1949 Publication of Oklahoma: Foot-loose and Fancy-free, funded in part by the Rockefeller Fellowship. Conducted survey of social and economic conditions in full blood settlements of the Five Civilized Tribes for the Indian Rights Association. 1950 Inducted into the Oklahoma Memorial Association’s Oklahoma Hall of Fame. 1951 Publication of The Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma: Report on Social and Economic Conditions. 1952-1954 Wrote a column entitled “This Week in Oklahoma History” for the Oklahoma City Times. 1952 Inducted into Gamma Theta Upsilon, national professional geographic fraternity. Initiated into Delta Kappa Gamma, national honor society for women teachers. 1952-1961 Book reviewer for the New York Times. 1953 Publication of Oliver Nelson’s The Cowman’s Southwest: Being the Reminiscences of Oliver Nelson, Freighter, Camp Cook, Cowboy, Frontiersman in Kansas, Indian Territory, Texas, and Oklahoma, 1878-1893, edited by Debo. Member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. 1954 Death of her mother, Lina Debo. 1956-1966 Member, Board of Directors, Association on American Indian Affairs. 1956 Conducted a survey of the Relocation Policy as it affected Oklahoma Indians for the Association on American Indian Affairs. 1957-1958 Taught Oklahoma history at Oklahoma State University. 1958-1959 Edited Oklahoma Indian Newsletter 1958 Angie Debo Recognition Day, Marshall, Oklahoma. Traveled to Europe and the U.S.S.R. with European Seminar of the Council for Christian Social Action. 1960 Attended a summer seminar in Mexico. 1961 Awarded honorary life membership in the Oklahoma Historical Society. 1962 Publication of Horatio B. Cushman’s History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians, edited by Debo. Awarded a certificate of contribution to Oklahoma City by the Soroptimist Club of Oklahoma City. Traveled to Canada. 1963 Traveled to England. 1965 Taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 5 1966 Traveled to Africa. 1969-1975 Lobbied for land rights of Alaska Natives. 1969 Prairie City Days (annual celebration), Marshall, Oklahoma. Traveled to Alaska. 1970 Publication of A History of the Indians of the United States.
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