| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxxiv, 276 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-1829-1.)

Some of the most important recent scholarship in American Indian history illuminates the ways that Native, European, and American women and men identified and negotiated the spaces we now call intimate frontiers. In Taking Assimilation to Heart, Katherine Ellinghaus follows the tradition of historians such as Sylvia Van Kirk and Albert Hurtado by examining white women in the United States and Australia who, between 1887 and 1937, chose to marry indigenous men. The author, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne, uses a transnational and comparative approach to reveal the unique experiences of such couples whose relationships transcended contemporary racial and cultural boundaries. She weaves the themes of class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality into her marital biographies to delineate the often-treacherous personal, social, and political terrain these women and men inhabited.

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