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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Tom Holm. The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 244. Cloth $50.00, paper $21.95.

The period between the late nineteenth century assimilation movement and the so-called Indian New Deal is generally regarded as one of the most complex and contradictory ones in Native American history. Tom Holm does nothing to dispel this idea, but he does attempt to explain the factors contributing to the "great confusion." Holm views the period through three interpretive lenses: the 1983 Canadian report, "The Government of Aboriginal Peoples," which identified distinct stages in the history of Indian-white relations; the concept of a "peoplehood matrix"; and Robert H. Wiebe's characterization of the Progressive era as the "search for order." The author's success at employing these frameworks reasonably becomes the measure of the book's strengths and weaknesses.

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