| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories. By Jacqueline Shea Murphy. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 320 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-4775-0. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-4776-7.)

In this award-winning book, Jacqueline Shea Murphy explores "the interrelations between Native American dance and the history and development of modern dance in America" (p. 4). Such an exploration, as the author recounts, is fraught with tensions between the histories of Native dance and Canadian and U.S. governmental restrictions, and the "unremarked absence of Native American dance in modern dance practices and histories" (p. 2). It is this unremarked absence that Murphy tries to correct in this text, the winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize for outstanding book of the year in dance studies. Drawing from archival research, informal conversations and formal interviews with Native dance practitioners and choreographers, and pre- and post-performance talks, Murphy weaves together previously unpublished histories of Native and modern dance, reading them against federal Indian policies and legislation.

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