| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775-1995. By Martha C. Knack. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xiv, 471 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8032-2750-7.)

Martha C. Knack has crafted a richly detailed account of contact between various white communities and the scattered groups of Paiutes in what became southwestern Utah, southern Nevada, and northwestern Arizona. The whites represented a cross section of life in the West: mountain men, Mexican traders, Mormons, miners, soldiers, and federal bureaucrats. (Contacts with other Native Americans were important but are not analyzed in great detail.) Knack asks how Paiute ethnic identity adjusted and persisted, given that Paiute culture was always subordinated in the contacts. Her narrative is chronological, with each of the major white subcultures treated as a distinct segment for clarity, although they influenced one another. 1

Whites had a common basic objective: to lay hold of Paiute resources. Land mattered most, followed closely by water. Paiute labor was snared, as were Paiute bodies and souls occasionally. But mostly Paiutes had to be shoved out of sight onto poor tracts that could not be farmed or mined or grazed and, if they resisted, indiscriminately murdered. . . .

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