Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Wisconsin Oneida Time Line -- Maps of Wisconsin Oneida Reservation -- Introduction: A Bumpy Road: Overview of Wisconsin Oneida History 1900-1975, - Laurence M. Hauptman -- Part 1. Maintaining Wisconsin Oneida Community Life: Reservation and City -- Introduction -- Looking Back: The Oneida Nation of Indians of Wisconsin in the Early 1970s - Jack Campisi -- An Environmental History of Oneida Life at Duck Creek: Then and Now - Carol Cornelius and Loretta Metoxen -- The Oneida Methodist Church, 1816-1975 - Evelyn E. (Schuyler) Smith-Elm -- The Indian New Deal at Oneida - Oscar Archiquette -- Codeswitching in the Oneida WPA Texts - Clifford Abbott -- Table 1: English Words Used in the Oneida WPA Texts -- Table 2: English Words Incorporated into Oneida Words -- Cherry Picking: A WPA Story in Oneida and English - Lewis Webster -- A Tribute to "She Remembers" [Maria Christjohn Hinton] with Reflections on Oneida Language Classes in the 1970s - Ernest Stevens Jr. -- Oneida Education: Past, Present, and Future - Thelma Cornelius McLester -- The Origins of the Oneida Nation Library - Judy Cornelius -- Sybil Carter and Her Legacy - Patricia Matteson -- Reviving Oneida Lacemaking - Betty McLester and Debra Jenny -- Reminiscences of Oneida Life in Milwaukee, 1920-1975 - Opal Skenandore -- Part 2. Wisconsin Oneidas Polish the Chain of Alliance, 1917-1975 -- Introduction -- Remembering Oneida Veterans and Their Sacrifices: A Personal Journey - Jerry Danforth -- Oneidas in World War I - Loretta Metoxen -- Three Memoirs of Veterans - Edmund Powless, Franklin L. Cornelius, and Kenneth William Webster -- Photos -- Part 3. Wisconsin Oneida Responses to Federal Policies, 1900-1975 -- Introduction -- The Wisconsin Oneidas, 1887-1933 - L. Gordon McLester III.

The Wisconsin Oneida Tribal Government under the Indian Reorganization Act: The New Deal Years, 1933-1941 - Loretta Webster -- A Contrast with Oneida: Menominee Termination and Restoration, 1954-1973 - Ada Deer -- Claims Arising: The Oneida Nation of Indians of Wisconsin and the Indian Claims Commission, 1951-1982 - Karim M. Tiro -- The Wisconsin Oneidas and Termination, 1943-1956 - Laurence M. Hauptman -- Federal Indian Policies and the Wisconsin Oneidas: From the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (1975) - Loretta R. Webster -- Part 4. Portraits of Wisconsin Oneida Leadership -- Introduction -- Table 3: Wisconsin Oneida Governments Under the Indian Reorganization Act, 1937-1969 -- Reminiscences of Working for the Wisconsin Oneida Tribal Government in the 1950s and 1960s: Part 1 - Althea Schuyler -- Reminiscences of Working for the Wisconsin Oneida Tribal Government in the 1950s and 1960s: Part 2 - Eva Danforth -- Irene Moore: A Memoir - Irene Moore -- Norbert Seabrook Hill Sr. - Megan Minoka Hill and Norbert Hill Jr. -- Purcell R. Powless - L. Gordon McLester III -- An Interview with Robert L. Bennett - Joe B. Frantz -- Protecting Indian Sovereignty - Ernest Stevens Sr. -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.