| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.4

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Book Review

American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870–1920. By Brian C. Hosmer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xvi + 309 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

By focusing on the Wisconsin Menominee and the Metlakatlans of British Columbia, Brian Hosmer forcefully demonstrates how Native people comprehended and adapted to the developing market economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They did so by allowing their cultural values to guide their shrewd pursuit of economic security. Hosmer's choice of success stories is a welcome relief from more normative stories of struggle and failure. 1

Hosmer anchors his study in world systems theory, where scholars seek to explain the marked contrast between the growing wealth of the metropolitan core and the peripheralization and impoverishment of others through political domination and economic resource extraction. Indigenous people of North America who were largely dispossessed of their land base clearly fall among these victims. Most world systems theorists have portrayed them as super-exploited victims--end of story. . . .

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