| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.2

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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. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.)

Amy C. Schutt's title, Peoples of the River Valleys, is an apt reference to the people who lived in the region that became eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and southeastern New York. She addresses well the challenge of discussing the history and culture of native groups who were known as the Delawares by the mid-eighteenth century. The earliest European maps and narratives referred to communities living along tributaries of the Delaware River and in the Hudson Valley with names such as Sanhicans, Naratekons, Mantes, and "River Indians." As Schutt suggests, the issue of names highlights "the social complexity of the peoples under investigation and the fluid nature of the groups involved" (p. 3). Terminology also reminds us that sources and scholarly methodologies for studying Algonquians and their relationships with settlers and Iroquois are predominantly Euro-American and thus provide a limited perspective.

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