| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775–1995. By Martha C. Knack. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xi + 471 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.)

The Southern Paiute people and their ancestors have lived in the arid basins, mountain ranges, and canyonlands of southern Utah, northern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southeastern California for thousands of years. They lived in small, extended family camp groups and moved seasonally to gather the diverse, though scanty, food resources of their land. Some of them settled to farm in the canyons of the tributaries of the Colorado River, where there were bits of fertile flood-plain or where simple irrigation was possible. Their persistence in this environment depended upon detailed knowledge of the landscape and upon their genius for adaptability. Martha Knack helps put the Southern Paiute people and their ancestors back on the map. This is the best book available on the history of the Southern Paiute. The ethnohistoric focus of the book is upon the interethnic boundary maintenance between the Southern Paiutes and the other peoples that invaded their homeland. It describes the selective adaptation of the Southern Paiute people as alien societies came into their land and took their homesites, farms, natural resources, and their freedom. The book describes how these people adapted to survive as a small but persistent community, though anthropologists and historians predicted their demise long ago.

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