Reviewed by John Sugden | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 105.1

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The Shawnee

By Jerry E. Clark

(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Pp. ix, 105. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paperbound, $18.00.)

This brave little book, originally published in 1977, attempts a survey of the culture and history of the eighteenth-century Shawnee, the tribe most associated with contesting the white settlement of the Old Northwest. Despite their importance, the Shawnee had then attracted few serious scholars, and most of the literature was superficial, vague, and inaccurate. The best published research, by such pioneers as Erminie Wheeler Voegelin and Charles Hanna, treated only limited aspects of what was a large, complicated, and legendary field. Undeterred, Jerry E. Clark offered an introduction remarkable for its breadth, tackling issues as diverse as musical styles, folklore, migration, technology, and inter-tribal relations. Fishing such murky waters, the book does not entirely succeed but still repays study.

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