| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.4

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Book Review

Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880–1940. By Sherry L. Smith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ix + 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $35.00.)

Despite "considerable frustrations" while "mapping middlebrow purveyors of Indianness at the turn of the century," Sherry Smith has crafted a study of ten non-Indian writers, scholars, and artists originally from the East, Midwest, and England who came West as adults (p. 213). They not only represent two distinct generations, clearly indicative of the length of this journey of "reimagining," but reflect a broad geographical representation of tribal interests. Asserting "Indians' humanity, artistry, community, and spirituality" in their writing, they "gradually, but undeniably nudged Anglo-Americans into reconsidering not only their view of Indians but also Indians' place in this country" (pp. 4–5). Furthermore, they helped bring about a "fundamental change in popular conceptions of Indians," thus serving as "vehicles for analyzing American culture in an era of great social and political upheaval" (pp. 5, 8). Although each writer is presented individually, Smith has skillfully tied them to one another, thus producing a fully integrated study, instead of a series of separate essays. . . .

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