| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795–1870. By Stephen Warren. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xii, 217 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02995-X.)

This slender volume traces some of the history and culture of the Shawnee Indians as they moved gradually west from Ohio to the Indian Territory by the late nineteenth century. The author presented his central theme clearly. For him, the Shawnee tribe, or nation, evolved gradually from a society originally living in some two hundred scattered villages under local chiefs to a group with leaders claiming the exclusive right to deal with the U.S. government for all Shawnee people. He called the notion that a distinct Shawnee voice existed, "fiction at best" (p. 7). Instead, he depicted a process in which economically successful mixed-race men chose accommodation with the United States as their central goal. The book traces three types of Shawnee identities that ebb and flow for several generations.

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