"Beck's careful archival research, coupled with field notes and interviews, demonstrate how stalwart, unceasing resistance efforts, organization, and persistence (130 years between the original treaty and recognition in 1985) eventually led to victory. This kind of close historical scholarship serves to amend a record that often presents Indian people as victims rather than as powerful initiators and participants in a restorative justice process."--L. De Danaan, Choice "[ Seeking Recognition ] is a valuable source for people interested in Indian termination policy, Oregon history, and in the history of race relations generally in the United States. The Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw finally have received the recognition unfairly denied to them over the last one hundred and fifty years."--Nicholas C. Peroff, American Historical Review "Drawing on an impressive range of archival materials, secondary sources, and interviews with Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw who resisted termination and demanded restoration, Beck's fine book adds to our understanding of the termination era and of American Indian's efforts to maintain their culture and their community in the twentieth century."--Paul C.

Rosier, Ethnohistory "Tribal members will find their own voices and family stories interspersed throughout Beck's narrative. Indian perspectives and local knowledge bring this historical policy analysis to life."--Gray H. Whaley, Pacific Historical Review "Using oral history to plug gaps in the written record and to convey Native perspectives, Beck offers a fuller view of the forces that shaped federal policy and a more complex picture of tribal responses to it."--Andrew H. Fisher, Wicazo Sa "David R. M. Beck has made a major contribution by examining the disaggregated communities of the Oregon Coast between the Siletz and Coquille Rivers--known today as the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw.

"--R. Warren Metcalf, Western Historical Quarterly.