University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Great Plains Quarterly Great Plains Studies, Center for Fall 2001 Land, Justice, And Angie Debo Telling The Truth To-And About- Your Neighbors Patricia Nelson Limerick University of Colorado at Boulder,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly Part of the Other International and Area Studies Commons Limerick, Patricia Nelson, "Land, Justice, And Angie Debo Telling The Truth To-And About-Your Neighbors" (2001). Great Plains Quarterly. 2209. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2209 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Great Plains Studies, Center for at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Great Plains Quarterly by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. LAND, JUSTICE, AND ANGIE DEBO TELLING THE TRUTH TO-AND ABOUT-YOUR NEIGHBORS PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK When Angie Debo was an old woman, she phone calls to them. She got her network lived in her hometown of Marshall, Oklahoma, geared up to write in support of Alaskan Na where she had warm and close ties with her tive land claims, an enlargement of the neighbors. She also had a more geographically Havasupai Reservation, and groundwater dispersed network: a list of several hundred rights for the Papago or Tohono O'odham. people, scattered around the nation, whom She attended closely to events in Marshall she would mobilize to write senators and con and to events all over North America. gressmen, or to the president, on behalf of After she retired, Angie Debo did some particular campaigns for Indian rights.