| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern. By Joel Pfister. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. xvi, 340 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 0-8223-3254-X. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-8223-3292-2.)

This book is like the curate's egg—excellent in parts, but elsewhere more problematic. The two sets of underused archival material it brings into scholarly purview are absolutely fascinating—that is, the publications, correspondence, and photographs of the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians from 1879 to 1918 and the writings connected with Taos and the Indian New Deal, including the correspondence of the foremost white bohemians of the era, D. H. Lawrence, Mabel Luhan, and John Collier. Into this mix the author adds insights from Indian literature. We learn, for example, of the surveillance kept up by the creepy cartoon figure Mr. See All within the pages of Carlisle's publication The Indian Boys' and Girls' Friend; we learn of the chilling transformational metaphors and practices of the school's leader, Richard Henry Pratt; we learn about Indian assimilationist novels and about Collier and Lawrence and of how they and their kind used things Indian to perform a "soft rebellion" (p. 221) against the U.S. socioeconomic and political system.

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