Reviewed by Christina Snyder | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.2

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Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. By Juliana Barr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 397 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

In this carefully researched work, Barr analyzes interactions between Spaniards and the native peoples of Texas—including Apaches, Caddos, Comanches, and Wichitas—from the 1690s through the 1780s. Barr explains that in Texas, "The primary power relations were not European versus Indian, but relations among native peoples" (p. 6). Spain's grip on the province was tenuous and—lacking the power to force their culture on local Indian groups—settlers and administrators were forced to adapt to native social, political, and economic norms. Too often, Barr argues, historians of early America cast their stories in racial terms. She demonstrates that race, while certainly present in the minds of Spaniards, had little influence in eighteenth-century Texas, where Indian constructions of gender and kinship defined social relations.

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