| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh. By Gordon M. Sayre. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. x, 357 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2970-6. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5632-0.)

In The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero, Gordon M. Sayre analyzes a broad, international range of depictions of Native Americans and their leaders, including their presence in stage plays, epic poems, novels, histories, documents written by various colonizers, as well as transcriptions of speeches by Native American leaders. The analysis deftly explores how the depictions of the non-Native victors in each of seven examples of Native American resistance—from the conquest of the Aztecs by Hernando Cortés through the War of 1812—have framed Native leaders as tragic heroes. He makes the point that "The stories and myths of these seven Indian rebellions are deeply ingrained in the national myths of the three nations of North America" (p. 41).

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