| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Charles Wilkinson. Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. New York: W. W. Norton. 2005. Pp. xvi, 543. $26.95.
It is indeed fortunate that, at long last, scholars of American Indian history have discovered the post-World War II era. At the very least, uncovering previously untold stories adds depth and texture to these ongoing stories. But even more, studies located in the more recent past contest stubborn habits of inquiry that place supposedly authentic Indian life (and therefore meaningful historical inquiry) deeper into the past. This tendency not only "exoticizes" American Indian history but reifies narrow perspectives that offer only two possibilities: the valiant but doomed struggle that ended sometime in the late nineteenth century, and the depressing story of contemporary communities wracked by social problems and seeking deliverance through the false god of gaming.	1
True, not all studies follow those patterns, and not all historians cling desperately to familiar paradigms. This is particularly the case with the latest work of the attorney, scholar, activist, and historian Charles Wilkinson. Wilkinson is perhaps best known to readers of this journal for American Indians, Time, and the Law (1987). But specialists in American Indian studies also know him as an advocate for American Indian tribes, a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund, and a key participant in the legal struggle over tribal sovereignty.	. . .

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