| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Laura Woodworth-Ney. Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805–1902. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 2004. Pp. x, 234. $31.95.

Americans prefer Indians who fight. In the Pacific Northwest, those Nez Perce who chose warfare to resist dispossession and relocation have inspired a shelf full of books. The less dramatic, more sedate efforts of the Coeur d'Alene or Schitsu'umsh to hold on to their territories through accommodation, by comparison, have garnered little notice. Laura Woodworth-Ney's study rectifies that omission. The Coeur d'Alene case offers the familiar themes of nineteenth-century Indian history: change initiated by early contact with traders and missionaries, emerging tribal identity encouraged by interactions with outsiders, conflicting strategies among tribal members regarding settlers' demands for land, decline of economic and political power for women, and eventual loss of lands in spite of all efforts. The Coeur d'Alene put up a good "fight" through alliances with Jesuit missionaries and former army officers, petitions to government officials, and insistence on legal agreements to property and legitimacy as a tribe. But, in the end, their fate differed little from other Indians who occupied places coveted by non-Indians.

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