| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805–1902. By Laura Woodworth-Ney. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. xii, 234 pp. $31.95, ISBN 0-87081-761-2.)

Laura Woodworth-Ney is to be commended for her authoritatively researched and documented and readily accessible history of the creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation of Idaho. She effectively demonstrates how the creation of two critical "identities," that is, "the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe" and "the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation," were the result of a complex "sphere of interaction" through the agency of specific non-Indian as well as Indian individuals (p. 2). "The reservation era did not simply represent the end of a tidy process of U. S. expansion and conquest," nor were Indian peoples simply the recipients of the effects of Euro-American assimilation pressures (ibid.). But the emerging Indian identities were the culmination of decisions and actions of both Coeur d'Alene leaders and Euro-American explorers, fur traders, Jesuit missionaries, Indian agents and commissioners, and others. Woodworth-Ney convincingly argues that Schitsu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene) identities exemplify "Native peoples creating identities for themselves that they used to interact with outsiders" (ibid.). As critical to the development and redefinition of these identities, Woodworth-Ney highlights the role of "maps" and "mapping," which serve also

as a history of non-Indian perceptions of identity and place in Coeur d'Alene country. Maps are visual constructs of ideas about geography, place, and power discovery and settlement. (p. 4)

Mapping becomes

a mark of Euro-American progress—once a region was mapped, it was one step closer to "civilization." . . . As Americans moved westward, they created their own visual abstraction of Manifest Destiny. (p. 5)

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