| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600–1871. By David J. Silverman. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiv, 303 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-521-84280-8.)

David J. Silverman has written a compelling and original history of the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard using extensive archival research, personal interviews with contemporary Wampanoag residents of Martha's Vineyard, and a firm grasp of the secondary scholarship available on the Algonquian peoples of New England. Silverman is most astute in his choice of the Wampanoags of Martha's Vineyard as a research subject. Until now their history has only received sporadic attention despite the existence of a rich archive and extensive documentation of Indian lifeways, most specifically through Experience Mayhew's 1727 text, Indian Converts, which documents the lives of Christianized Natives on Martha's Vineyard through the early eighteenth century. Silverman uses his sources expertly, reconstructing individual lives and experiences to paint a far more complex picture of Indian life on the island than has hitherto been available.

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