| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians. By Amy C. Schutt. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 250 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-3993-5.)
Community and kin networks. Alliance formation. Shared territories. These are the themes Amy C. Schutt explores in Peoples of the River Valleys. Encompassing the Unami-speaking people of the Delaware River valley and the Munsee-speaking people of the Hudson River valley, these "peoples of the river valleys" would later be collectively known as the Lenape or Delaware Indians. Schutt traces the literal odyssey of the Delawares from contact with Europeans through the era of the American Revolution as they migrated from one river valley to the next, from their homelands to new lands, at each stage meeting the challenges of encroaching European settlement, frontier conflict, and European imperialism. Along the way she successfully demonstrates how the Delawares shared new geographic spaces, established new networks, and mediated between peoples.	1
Like other coastal peoples, the Delawares experienced the brunt of European contact and suffered from the resulting disease and warfare. While they benefited at times from trade with Europeans, pressure for their lands forced them to migrate westward. They encountered other indigenous groups while never fully succeeding in escaping European encroachments on their land. Against that backdrop, Schutt explores Delaware efforts to control their home and hunting lands and to maintain peace with their neighbors. She argues that throughout their history the Delawares followed similar patterns of social organization and intergroup negotiations, whether among Indians or between Indians and Europeans.	. . .

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