| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention. By Gary Clayton Anderson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. viii, 376 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8061-3111-X.)

Gary Clayton Anderson's book The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830 will appeal to all individuals interested in the types of strategies used by indigenous communities forced to negotiate with the realities of colonial expansion. Anderson's impressive book focuses on four Native populations pivotal to the area's development of a regional economy during the expansion of Spain, France, and Mexico into the southern Plains. Consequently, he provides a penetrating analysis of organizational changes occurring in the kinship, political, and demographic structures of the Jumanos, Apaches, Caddoans, and Comanches. 1

Dividing his work into four parts, Anderson begins his study with an impressive analysis of interactions between the Spanish and the Jumanos. He successfully explains the methods used by the Jumanos to maintain their long-standing ability to control the movement of trade goods across the southern Plains. With the settlement of the Spanish in the western Pueblos along the Rio Conchos and Rio Grande, the Jumanos continued to use kinship networks and reciprocal exchanges to control newly introduced colonial products. Disruptions caused by disease, events south of the Rio Grande, the growing power of the Apaches, and shifts in Spanish policy led the Jumanos to incorporate Native populations fleeing disease, warfare, and expanding Spanish settlements. . . .

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