| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes. By Susan Sleeper-Smith. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. xviii, 234 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-55849-308-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-55849-310-7.)

Susan Sleeper-Smith's ambitions for this book are best captured by its subtitle. Historians, she argues, have not sufficiently acknowledged the way in which Indian peoples persevered through the long process of colonization. With the western Great Lakes region as her focus, she examines the range of adaptive strategies employed by Indian communities to deal with friendly and hostile strangers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Those strategies included intermarriage with fur traders, the adoption of Catholicism and its incorporation into traditional cultural practice, and the maintenance of spatially extensive Catholic kin networks. Her evidence impressively links those strategies across three centuries. Continuity and persistence, she argues, better characterize Indian history than decline and disappearance.

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