| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Peter Nabokov. A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 246. Cloth $55.00, paper $20.00.

This book explores what Peter Nabokov calls American Indian historicity. Of its several meanings, historicity generally denotes historic quality; historic, the nature of history opposed to other genres like myth, legend, or fiction; and the aim of history to deduce and narrativize past events, or what really happened. Following Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Nabokov defines historicity in a specific way as "culturally patterned way or ways of experiencing and understanding … [and] constructing and representing history" (p. 20). The main intent of his book is to reveal these culturally patterned ways. 1

The book consists of an introduction and nine chapters. One chapter is on historicity (in Nabokov's sense) in place, another on historicity in things. There is a chapter on "truths" that are "almost timeless" and another on events "within reach of memory." Historicity is subversive, we read elsewhere. All chapters seem to return to "historicity," to the various ways that North American Indians have imagined and represented the past. Perhaps deliberately, chapters circle around themes and spiral toward historical and culturally contextualized conclusions. The cases mentioned in any given chapter are new, but the ground covered is always familiar. . . .

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