| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.4

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One Vast Winter Count The Native American West before Lewis and Clark

By Colin G. Calloway

(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 631. Illustrations, maps, notes, selected bibliography, index. $39.95.)


North America was an ancient human habitat millennia before it became the New World, but few of us have even the vaguest notion of its previous occupants. A pueblo here, a burial mound there, a pictograph, a Folsom missile point or pottery shard, and a few haunting names like Anasazi and Etowah are faint vestiges of the long, panoramic saga of pre-Columbian life.	1
In an ambitious new work, historian Colin Calloway makes that panorama of peoples vivid. One Vast Winter Count is part of a six-volume series aiming at fresh perspectives on the mythic Winning of the West. The book relates many of the darker aspects of westward expansion: the catastrophic epidemics, enslavement and subjugation of the native peoples, broken treaties, and the missionaries' mockery of tribal spirituality and their deliberate obversion of native gender roles.	2
Calloway, chairman of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, is a prodigious researcher and an engaging writer. He is also a wide-angle viewer, distilling and synthesizing every sort of data, from the records of priests among the conquistadors, to native oral histories, to the labors of specialized scholars and historians both old and recent.	. . .

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