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Angie Debo Collection: Chronology of Angie Debo's Life

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By Heather M. Lloyd

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
  • Taught in rural schools near Marshall, OK.

    1913

  • Graduated from Marshall High School

    1913-1915

  • Taught in rural schools near Marshall, OK.

    1915-1918

  • Student at the University of Oklahoma, Norman
  • Received bachelor's degree, 1918

    1918-1919

  • Principal, Village School, North Enid, OK

    1919-1923

  • Taught history at Senior High School, Enid, OK.

    1920

  • Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society

    1923

  • Received Community Service Certificate, Enid, OK.

    1923-1924

  • Student at the University of Chicago
  • Received master's degree

    1924-1933

  • Member of the history department, West Texas State Teachers College, Canyon, TX
  • Taught in a high school associated with the college
  • Studied toward 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 Edwin Debo, her brother

    1933

  • Received doctorate degree 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, TX.

    1934

  • Publication of Debo's doctoral dissertation as The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
  • Began career as a free lance writer
  • Moved back to Marshall, OK.

    1934-1936

  • Conducted research and completed manuscript for And Still the Waters Run, 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, Nacogdoches, TX.

    1937-1939

  • Researched and wrote The Road To Disappearance, funded in part by a grant from the Social Science Research Council

    1937

  • Participated in editing and conducting interviews for the WPA Indian-Pioneer History 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 after some revisions made to manuscript

    1941

  • Publication of The Road to Disappearance
  • 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, her only work of fiction, based on the history of Marshall and nearby towns
  • Death of Edward P. Debo, her father
  • 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

    1949

  • Publication of Oklahoma, Foot-loose and Fancy-free, funded in part by the Rockefeller Fellowship
  • Conducted survey of social and economic conditions in fullblood 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, edited by Debo
  • Member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society

    1954

  • Death of Lina Debo, her mother

    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, OK.
  • 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, NM.

    1966

  • Traveled to Africa

    1969-1975

  • Lobbied for land rights of Alaska Natives

    1969

  • Prairie City Days, Marshall, OK. (annual celebration)
  • Traveled to Alaska

    1970

  • Publication of A History of the Indians of the United States
  • Received an "Okie" certificate from the State of Oklahoma
  • Received a tribute from the Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs

    1971

  • Received the award for best non-fiction from the Oklahoma Writer's Federation

    1972

  • Honored by Navajo Community College, Tsaile, AZ

    1973-1975

  • Lobbied for water rights for Havasupai Indians in Arizona

    1973-1976

  • Member, Board of Directors, Oklahoma Chapter of ACLU

    1973

  • Invited to participate in L.S. Ayers Tribute to the American Indian, Indianapolis, IN Received Distinguished Service Award from the Oklahoma Heritage Association

    1974

  • Awarded honorary life membership, Oklahoma Writers Federation

    1975-1976

  • Lobbied for water rights for Pima Indians, Arizona

    1975

  • Appointed member of the Oklahoma Bicentennial Commission

    1976

  • Publication of Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place
  • Angie Debo Day was declared in Canyon, TX
  • Received the Henry G. Bennett Distinguished Service Award, Oklahoma State University
  • Received the Pride of the Plainsmen Award from Enid (OK) High School
  • Received the Bicentennial Medal from the Oklahoma Library Association

    1977

  • Selected by the Border Regional Library Association (El Paso, TX) to receive its Southwest Book Award for Biography, for Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place

    1978

  • Received Honorary Doctor of Letters from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
  • Received the Newsmaker Award from the Tulsa Chapter of Women in Communications
  • Received the Wrangler Award from the Western Heritage Association of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place
  • Received Southwestern Library Association's 1978 Book Award for Geronimo

    1979

  • Received Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History
  • Awarded an honorary degree from Phillips University, Enid, OK

    1980

  • Reception held in Debo's honor, Oklahoma State University

    1981-1985

  • Was interviewed for an oral history project by Gloria Valencia-Weber and Glenna Matthews, Oklahoma State University faculty

    1981

  • Received the Award of Merit from the Western History Association

    1982-1986

  • Filming and interviewing by Institute for Research in History to prepare documentary for American Experience Series

    1982

  • History Department, Oklahoma State University, established the "Angie Debo Award for Oklahoma History"
  • Received honorary life membership from the Payne County, OK, Historical Society

    1983

  • Inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, Hereford, TX
  • Received the Distinguished Service Citation of the University of Oklahoma Alumni Association

    1984

  • Inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame by the Oklahoma Governor's Advisory Commission on the Status of Women

    1985

  • Designated as an Ambassador of Goodwill by the Cherokee Nation
  • Received Certificate of Recognition from the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
  • Honored by the State of Oklahoma by having portrait hung in the Rotunda of the State Capitol

    1986

  • Received the Achievement Award from the American Indian Historians Association

    1987

  • Granted the Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association

    1988, January 24

  • Governor Henry L. Bellmon presented the Award for Scholarly Distinction in a special ceremony in Marshall

    1988, February 21

  • Debo passed away; burial in North Cemetery, Marshall, OK

    1988, October

  • Debo was the subject of a PBS television documentary prepared by the Institute on Research in History (New York City) entitled "Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo" which aired as part of the "American Experience" series

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