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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Brian C. Hosmer. American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870–1920. (Development of Western Resources.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1999. Pp. xvi, 309. $35.00.

Brian C. Hosmer's book begins with a simple but unassailable premise: Native peoples have never been passive in their relations with non-Indians, nor have they understood their dealings with outsiders in those terms. While this is hardly a novel approach to American Indian studies, Hosmer does place his subject in a historical context that remains underexamined. The chronological parameters of his study, 1870–1920, mark a time of profound demographic and social collapse for indigenous communities across the continent. The severe challenges that Native peoples faced in these decades are clearly linked to the processes that Alan Trachtenberg has called "the incorporation of America," yet Hosmer presents the capitalist marketplace as an important medium through which American Indians could actively strengthen bonds of community and foster cultural distinctiveness. The period and subject of Hosmer's study allow him to demonstrate the adaptive resilience of Native American communities in even the worst of circumstances, while raising important questions about "the degree to which Indian individuals and social groupings made their own choices" or simply responded to shifts in "global market capitalism" (p. 109). . . .

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