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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Celia Barnes. Native American Power in the United States, 1783–1795. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2003. Pp. 250. $47.50.

Appearing as it does in the wake of a remarkable era of scholarship—works by Richard White, Gregory Evans Dowd, Joel Martin, and Colin Calloway come to mind, for example—Celia Barnes's new book enters a rich and crowded field. The author's central contention is that, in the first decade of U.S. nationhood, Native Americans were at the center of the new nation's struggle for internal cohesion and its relations with Britain and Spain. She pursues this theme through an exploration of Native American power, "the manifestation of" which, she notes, "was ubiquitous" (p. 11). Indian conceptions of power gave rise, in Barnes's formulation, to consensual polities that "made the political structures of the villages and tribes very complex and difficult to grasp" (p. 26). Nevertheless, the pressures created by the American Revolution helped produce an unstable coalition of Indian groups that allied with varying degrees of success to oppose U.S. expansion in the years following 1783.

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