James D. Drake | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiv, 297 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3178-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8014-8282-8.)

Karen Ordahl Kupperman's Indians and English revisits the issues she dealt with in Settling with the Indians: The Meeting of English and Indian Cultures in America, 1580–1640 (1980). In that book Kupperman showed that early English colonists recognized the humanity and ordered societies of the Eastern Woodland Indians they encountered. Indians and English testifies to that argument's durability. The new book carries many of the same themes as the old: the complexity of Indian images in documents produced by colonists; the contrast between those writings and the stereotyped images in tracts by those who never left England; the need to prevent hindsight from blinding us to the uncertainty and contingency experienced by those who participated in the early encounters; the importance of status in English perceptions of Indians; and the need to view the history of New England and the Chesapeake as a coherent whole. . . .

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