| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kristina Bross. Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 257. Cloth $50.00, paper $21.95.

In this crisply written literary analysis, Kristina Bross sheds new light on the "Eliot tracts" published between the 1640s and 1670s by missionary John Eliot and his supporters to publicize their evangelism of New England Indians. Scholars have taken divergent approaches to these seminal writings, treating them variously as crass propaganda, transparent statements of fact, or jousts between colonists' hegemonic aspirations and Indians' camouflaged resistance. Bross sees the Eliot tracts as all these things and more. Colonists, Englishmen, and Natives jointly produced mission literature by manipulating the idea of the "praying" (or Christian) Indian in response to an emerging Atlantic world.

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