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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jerold S. Auerbach. Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2006. Pp. 205. $34.95.

At the end of this book, Jerold S. Auerbach reveals that on his first morning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he felt transported to another place: Jerusalem, "a strangely familiar foreign land, with deep historical and personal resonance" (p. 168). That information explained this book's genesis and interesting, but somewhat misguided, argument. Auerbach, whose previous work includes Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel (2001), maintains that Anglo-American "explorers" and other visitors to the Southwest repeatedly used biblical imagery to describe the Pueblos. This, in turn, connected to a long-standing American tradition of looking for the Promised Land, or Eden, in America. The Hebrew Bible framed the way Americans explained their supposedly unique historical experience. The Southwest, by the late nineteenth century, became "the last best hope of return to the wellspring of American distinctiveness as a chosen people" (p. 1).

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