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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound. By Alexandra Harmon. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 393 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-520-21176-6.)

Alexandra Harmon has written a most provocative study of the native peoples of the Puget Sound area of Washington State. She raises and responds to questions central to the twin stereotypes of Indians and tribes that plague federal, state, general public, and academic uses and misuses of the terms. She begins by asking how groups so different culturally and socially today from their aboriginal antecedents can be considered tribes and how people whose ancestries are a mixture of the many ethnic groups that have settled the Northwest can claim to be Indians. 1

Eschewing the view of some that there is a "primordial" imperative that determines race and ethnicity and that separates native peoples from each other and from non-natives, Harmon chooses to analyze the social boundaries that delineate the entities, following the research of Fredrik Barth. It is a research strategy that makes sense and provides a cohesive framework within which to investigate the complex relations among the diverse entities over time. . . .

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