| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest. Ed. by R. David Edmunds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03330-8. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07537-7.)

This collection of twelve essays brings together two historiographies not usually associated with one another. Scholarly interest in Native Americans in the Midwest—defined here as the five states of the Old Northwest plus Minnesota—usually tails off after their loss of political autonomy as a result of the War of 1812. State histories typically confine their post-1815 discussions of Native peoples to the federal government's acquisition of title to indigenous lands and imposition of its program for relocating Indians west of the Mississippi River. This removal of the Indian barrier to regional development thus constitutes a finite chapter in the frontier-and-settlement narrative of midwestern history. This narrative has proved so powerful that, as R. David Edmunds asserts in his introduction, Native peoples are most visible today to non-Indian midwesterners as casino operators, litigious activists for hunting and fishing rights, and tourist attractions of the northern woods. Enduring Nations seeks to overturn that totalizing narrative. By exploring the politics of indigenous persistence, the volume's authors laudably strive to move Native Americans from the periphery to the center of midwestern history.

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