| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kenneth William Townsend. World War II and the American Indian. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2000. Pp. x, 272. $35.00.

This is the most comprehensive history of American Indians during the war years to appear in over a decade. It is based on a thorough reading of the available Bureau of Indian Affairs and other federal documents, oral histories, and the private papers of crucial actors and leading spokespersons, both Indian and white. In several respects, it attempts and largely succeeds in finding and giving prominence to "Indian voices" as part of the story. Especially important is its inclusion of the experiences of Alaskan Natives. This means that the author, Kenneth William Townsend, provides a richer, more detailed account of a critical period in twentieth-century American Indian history, though he does not offer any startling new interpretations of the dynamics of tribal-government relations. . . .

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