| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America. By Alfred A. Cave. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xvi, 328 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8032-1555-X.)
As its author acknowledges, "this volume is partly (although not exclusively) a work of synthesis" (p. xiv). It revisits revitalization movements more originally analyzed by other scholars, including "Anthony Wallace, David Edmunds, Gregory Dowd, Richard White and Joel Martin" (p. xi), to tell again the story of Native American prophets from Neolin to Kenekuk who helped "summon up the spiritual and intellectual resources needed to frame ideological arguments to counter ... dispossession and cultural extinction" (p. x). The book does a fine job of describing prophet-led movements among the Delaware, Shawnee, Muskogee, Seneca, and Kickapoo peoples. Notably, it restores the reputation of Tenskwatawa. Nevertheless, we must ask: Why does the field need this synthesis now?	1
Alfred A. Cave does not answer that question systematically, but he does claim that, with the "notable exceptions" listed above (p. xi), most historians have ignored "the importance of spiritual beliefs and practices in shaping the lives and guiding the behavior of Native American peoples" (pp. xi–xii).	. . .

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