| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West. By John P. Bowes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 272 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85755-0. Paper, $22.99, ISBN 978-0-521-67419-5.)

John P. Bowes asks us to reconsider our understanding of one of the most chilling episodes in American history: the migration of thousands of Indians to new homes west of the Mississippi River. Bowes does not want to "erase the horrors created by forced removals," but he does seek to "weaken the image of the Great Father sweeping the eastern lands clean of Indian peoples" (p. 86). "Forced relocation was only one thread in a more expansive narrative" that includes migrants "who traveled independently" (pp. 18, 86). Exiles and Pioneers deals mainly with Delaware, Shawnee, Potawatomi, and Wyandot peoples who, after leaving the Great Lakes region, settled in what became Kansas.

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