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June, 2005
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Facing East from Indian Country
A Native History of Early America

By Daniel K. Richter
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 317. Illustrations, maps, notes, index, $26.00.)

Because Daniel K. Richter's Ordeal of the Longhouse (1991) remains a standard in the field, scholars in frontier and American Indian history greatly anticipated this follow-up monograph. To be sure, Richter does many things equally well in this newer book, bringing in environmental, cultural, medical, religious, economic, and agricultural history as well as linguistics, anthropology, and archaeology. Focusing on cis-Mississippi- and on cis-Appalachia-America, Facing East begins in A.D. 1002 and ends in Boston in 1836. Richter considers how the Indians viewed their lives, cultures, religions, and societies prior to European contact. He establishes the Indian understanding of the world and then gradually brings in the European (and sometimes African) cultures, ethnicities, religions, and personalities. . . .
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