| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Joel Pfister. Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern. (New Americanists.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 340. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95.
A book that begins by fantasizing about how American writer John Dos Passos might have responded to the Monty Python film Life of Brian, certainly promises, and indeed delivers, an intriguing read. In this "broadly conceived historical critique that contributes to the formation of a field" (p. 13), Joel Pfister examines how, from the 1870s to the present, white Americans have projected their concepts of individualism/individuality onto Native Americans. The book is therefore a study in the cultural construction of subjectivities (Pfister has a fondness for italicizing). In a short review, I can barely hint at the richness and sophistication of his multidisciplinary achievement.	1
Although the writer denies that he has written a history of American Indian education, the first of two case studies examines the rhetoric and practices of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1918 (focusing especially on founder Richard Henry Pratt, superintendent until 1904). Utilizing Carlisle publications and correspondence, Pfister reinforces the picture historians have given of this boarding school as an instrument of assimilation and of (American) individualization. Ironically, army-like discipline would simultaneously "workerize" (p. 94) tribal children for humble futures in the capitalist economic system. Pfister also calls upon the voices of Native Americans, who have manifested changing tribal subjectivities by accommodating to, exploiting, or contesting assimilationist education.	. . .

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