| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.1

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Alfred A. Cave. Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 328. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $27.95.

In the 1760s the report of a series of prophetic visions that marked an important transformation in the religious life of the region's First Peoples raced through the villages and mission communities of western Pennsylvania. Whereas in former times the Great Spirit had stood aloof from human affairs, in the visions of men like Neolin, the Delaware prophet, the Great Spirit frowned upon the miseries that had followed European colonization and showed his people how to reclaim their lost power and self-respect. A number of fine books on prophecy in eastern North America by scholars such as R. David Edmunds, Gregory Evans Dowd, Joel Martin, and John Sugden have appeared over the past few years, and Alfred A. Cave's Prophets of the Great Spirit draws together such literature in a synthetic account of the long struggle by First Peoples to craft a sacred response to the awful consequences of the invasion of America.

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