| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880. By Daniel R. Mandell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xxii, 321 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8694-2.)
Daniel R. Mandell has written a carefully crafted, well-researched book about indigenous peoples in southern New England. He might have added "gender" to the title since the book also documents the often surprisingly different experiences of native women from those of men.	1
A brief introduction sketches three themes: how native peoples preserved a modicum of autonomy and culture; the shifting roles and meanings of race and ethnicity, as revealed in interactions with African Americans; and the "dialectic between race and class" (p. xviii).	2
"Land and Labor" describes occupational specializations that simultaneously reinforced and undermined Indian identities. Mandell introduces as well the theme of the persistent myth of the "vanishing Indian." We learn about small communities and reserves, how men often left for long sea voyages on whalers, and how exogamous marriages were an issue for Indians and whites (and remain one for historians).	. . .

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