Reviewed by Joanna Brooks | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon Holland. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 364 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

In February 2007 the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe won its decades-long struggle for federal recognition, finally overcoming the long argument that its history of intermarriage made the community "black" but not "Indian." Just three weeks later, members of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma voted in a special election to amend its tribal constitution to take away the Cherokee Nation citizenship of about 2,800 black "Freedmen," descendents of former Cherokee slaves. Both cases demonstrate how powerfully the notion of race—and especially blackness—matters in Indian Country. Into these troubled terrains of memory, belonging, collectivity, and understanding comes the remarkably timely and uniquely evocative Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, edited by the historian Tiya Miles and the literary scholar Sharon Holland, both authors of prize-winning books in their respective fields. Holland and Miles have assembled a bravely explorative collection of essays that traverses genres, disciplines, national borders, and continental divides, broaching the difficult dimensions of love, loss, disappointment, denial, estrangement, sacrifice, and exclusion that have characterized lateral relations between and among these peoples of color in the colonized Americas.

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