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- Title
HOW THE SOUTHWEST EDUCATED FELIX COHEN.
- Authors
KEHOE, ALICE B.
- Abstract
Histories of the Indian New Deal under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Department of the Interior focus on the leadership of John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The work of Felix Cohen, assistant solicitor in the department who wrote most of the legislation of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, the 1946 Indian Claims Commission Act, and the foundational Handbook of Federal Indian Law, has been less recognized. Quite overlooked has been the work of Cohen's anthropologist wife, Lucy Kramer, a student of Franz Boas. With Office of Indian Affairs colleagues and with his wife, Felix Cohen visited the Southwest several times during the 1930s to meet with Pueblo, Navaho, O'odham, and other Indians. These experiences enriched Cohen's productions and their outcome in today's recognitions of indigenous sovereignties and rights.
- Subjects
COHEN, Felix S., 1907-1953; SOUTHWEST Indians (North American peoples); LEGAL realism; COHEN, Lucy Kramer, 1907-2007; LEGAL status of Native Americans in the 20th century; UNITED States. Dept. of the Interior; UNITED States. Indian Reorganization Act; NEW Deal, 1933-1939
- Publication
Southwestern Lore, 2014, Vol 80, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0038-4844
- Publication type
Article