| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Daniel K. Richter. Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 317. $26.00.

The ethnohistory of colonial America has reached such maturity that the field has taken a fashionable verbal turn. In addition to research on new groups and topics, we are getting syntheses, overviews, and "re-visionings" of familiar material, many of which capitalize on catchy titles to capture audiences. Fittingly, the best of these works are by ethnohistorians. 1

Daniel K. Richter is one of the best third-generation ethnohistorians at work in this busy field. His prize-winning Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (1992) is an exemplary monograph on that important confederacy. Now comes a second book, this one a meditation that begins in a St. Louis hotel room, not far from the impressive mound remains of Cahokia. The phrase "facing east" cropped up at a conference in Worcester, Massachusetts, to honor Richter's graduate mentor, Alden Vaughan, in 1994. These two inspirations led to the writing of what is admittedly not a true history from the native perspective and voice (because the sources are too scant) but a sympathetic "look over [the native] shoulder" at the incursions from the symbolic "east" and a partial attempt to "hear Native voices" (p. 9). . . .

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