Because of the controversy surrounding this title, I have summarized what I have gleaned about it as I have processed the collection. Information has come from the collection itself as well as some internet searching.

In 1985 Virginia P. Miller, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dalhousie University, filed a complaint of infringement of her copyrighted material (Ukomno'm: the Yuki Indians of Northern California, Ballena Press, 1979, based on her MA thesis, 1972) by the authors of Genocide and Vendetta against University of Oklahoma Press. She requested $50,000 in damages and immediate withdrawal of the book by the Press. The case dragged on and was finally settled through arbitration in July 1987. Carranco paid a total of $600 - for the 3 independent reviewers ($200 to each of them); there was a weak negative conclusion; and the remaining 208 copies were withdrawn by the Press in 1987, six years after the book was first published. Carranco's rebuttal addressed to the 3 scholar reviewers is in the collection: it was completed two weeks before he died and probably received after the decision was reached. The collection includes text of only one of the three scholar reviews, though there is correspondence related to the decision. This material is in Box 7: Sub series: Carranco and Beard, Genocide and Vendetta, Arbitration litigation.

The original print run by University of Oklahoma in 1981 was 3,000 copies. They sold well initially and Carranco was assured that when the supply diminished to the appropriate point, the Press would evaluate whether to reprint or to let it go out of print. As of 10-11-1983, the Press told him that they had 676 copies in inventory and that the book was selling at average of 43 copies/month. However, by September 1985, sales were at 40 copies for May-August and 3 copies in the first two weeks of September, leaving a total inventory of 208 copies. A letter from the Director of the Press to Miller's lawyer stated: "If we were forced to make a decision today about reprinting the book, we would almost certainly elect not to do so, quite apart from consideration of Dr. Miller's charges…."

Prior to Miller's 1985 complaint, she had much earlier sent Beard (and copied Carranco) a highly inflammatory letter regarding her perception of Beard's use of her work. Both recipients were so upset that they burned their copies of the letter. Miller then wrote a rather negative review of Genocide and Vendetta, published in Ethnohistory vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 1984, pp. 148-149. In 1983 she sent a pre-publication copy of her review to University of Oklahoma Press, and noted that she had previously, in 1975, sent a copy of a portion of her revised M.A. thesis to them for consideration for their Civilization of the American Indian series, and that it had been returned unread with the note that they had a large backlog of manuscripts and weren't considering further material. She described her manuscript and closed by asking if the Press was now accepting manuscripts for that series [n.b., Genocide and Vendetta was not published in the scholarly Civilization of the American Indian series, as Carranco had hoped it would be]. A year later, after Beard died, she filed the formal complaint with University of Oklahoma Press. Dr. Miller retired from Dalhousie University in 2000-01.

As of 1/6/2016, 326 OCLC libraries hold at least one copy of the book; it can be obtained on interlibrary loan from many of those libraries.

As of 1/6/2016, the book can be purchased, via Amazon, ranging from $449.98 to $1,200 for "signed/collectible" copy.

No online version of the book is currently available through the Internet Archive/ openlibrary.org.

Joan Berman, 1-19-2016