| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. By Daniel K. Richter. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. x + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $26.00.)

Since the publication of the late Francis Jennings's Invasion of America (New York, 1975), historians of American Indians have attempted to provide an alternate paradigm to analyze and interpret Indian history. Daniel K. Richter, director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Ordeal of the Longhouse (Chapel Hill, NC, 1992), has provided this paradigm in a well-written study. Although much of the material is not new, the book should be useful to scholars seeking a valuable synthesis. Because of its readability, Facing East from Indian Country could also be used for courses in American Indian history. 1

Instead of using the words "conquest" or "invasion," and focusing on the Indians as simply victims or as "bit players" in the creation of an American civilization, Richter treats Native peoples on their own terms. Hence, in this study (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) the author keeps the Native peoples on the center stage, not at the frontier's periphery, until changes occurred from 1763 onward through the 1830s. The author makes use of the writings and methodological techniques of anthropologists such as Brian Fagan, William M. Fenton, and Charles Hudson and historians such as James Merrell and Richard White. Richter is an expert on the Iroquois of the Northeast, but he also provides examples from all over, including some from the Southeast as well as from the Ohio Country and the Mississippi Valley. . . .

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