| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

White Robe's Dilemma: Tribal History in American Literature. By Neil Schmitz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. x, 181 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 1-55849-290-9. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 1-55849-291-7.)

This volume presents a postmodernist reading of a series of texts by and about American Indians. "White Robe's dilemma," which provides the title of this work, refers to a legendary war leader of the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. Rather than negotiate with the French, White Robe broke off diplomatic relations and engaged in a futile war that led ultimately to his death. He became, as Neil Schmitz expresses it, "beyond European words." Nonetheless, his life became a part of Euro-American literature on the basis of contemporary accounts and from stories told by Meskwakis more than two centuries later, recorded in Meskwaki and translated into English by William Jones, who was both a Native and an anthropologist. Defiant to Euro-Americans, in the end White Robe was assimilated into our literature. . . .

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