| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853–1889. By Brad Asher. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xii, 275 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3107-1.)

The history of Indian affairs has largely concentrated on reservation communities, which were the principal focus of federal policy and efforts. This approach has sometimes ignored the fact that Indians did not in fact live in a hermetically sealed reservation environment. Brad Asher's book very usefully turns our attention to Indians in Washington Territory and their relationship with "citizens" (their Anglo neighbors) and to Indians as participants in the larger nonreservation society. He suggests, "A full history of Washington Territory's Native communities must integrate the on-reservation and off-reservation Indian populations into the history of the surrounding area." This is what he has attempted to do. . . .

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