| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard. By Siobhan Senier. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. xv + 256 pp. $29.95.)

In Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance, Siobhan Senier offers a close reading of the written and oral narratives of three women whose lives span the century between the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934: the white novelist Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885); the Paiute autobiographer and performer Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891); and the Clackamas Chinook storyteller Victoria Howard (1865-1930). Senier's purpose is to chart these women's resistance to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century "Era of Assimilation," a period characterized by systematic efforts on the part of the federal government and allied reformers to break up tribal lands into individually-held parcels and otherwise to transform Indian people into property-owning, agrarian Christians. In the process, Indians as Indians were expected to vanish, leaving in their wake newly-minted citizens of the republic. Senier sees the era of assimilation as monolithic, as "uniform in its agreement that assimilation was the only thing that could be 'done' with Indians" (p. 3). . . .

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