| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4 | The History Cooperative

Victoria Freeman. Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America. South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth. 2000. Pp. xxiv, 535. $35.00.
By her own admission, Victoria Freeman is "not an academic, a historian, or a theoretician" (p. xxii). But she felt "burdened" by the historical injustices stemming from the colonization and settlement of North America, so she decided to research her ancestors' role in the process (p. xiv). The resulting book reads like a catharsis, intended to mourn the state of Native Americans in Canada and the United States and the lack of empathy felt toward them by many non-Natives.	1
The book has an episodic structure, with sections focusing on particular families in Freeman's genealogy and their relationships with Native peoples. She has links to an early New England missionary and an interpreter, a scalping victim in Vermont, a Methodist missionary in Upper Canada, and an administrator of a residential school in Northwestern Ontario. Hers is a family tree that allows for an innovative and highly personal history of Indian-white relations.	. . .

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