| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4 | The History Cooperative

*"The Thinking Indian": Native American Writers, 1850s–1920s*. By Bernd C. Peyer. (Frankfurt am Main, GER: Peter Lang, 2007. 384 pp. Notes, index. $65.95, paper.)
Bernd Peyer is a highly regarded European scholar who has done much to advance our understanding of early Native American writing. This book consists of five biographical chapters, arranged in chronological order, addressing the lives and literary production of five early Native American writers: John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee), Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute), Simon Pokagon (Potawatomi), Alexander Posey (Creek), and Charles Eastman (Dakota). A prologue and an epilogue aim to establish the relationship of the selected writers to the progressivist program of the Society of American Indians, which publicized the phrase "the thinking Indian," and to the ongoing dilemmas created by pressures for assimilation.	1
Peyer's treatment is rooted in a professional appreciation of relevant primary and secondary materials concerning these authors, and, in some cases, he has even added his own original research, but one comes away with a sense of handbook-like studiousness. In the end, his treatment of both the biographical and literary materials strikes one as always sound but seldom insightful.	. . .

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