| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Book Review

A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737–1832. By Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xviii + 233 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliographic notes, index. $47.50; £32.)

Focusing on the role of gender (though not exclusively), Murphy considers the history of American Indians immediately west of Lake Michigan between two critical dates: the end of the Fox Wars in 1737 and the Black Hawk War in 1832. The author specifically examines the complex actions, interactions, and reactions of Americans, Europeans (French and English especially), Creoles, Menominees, Mesquakies, Ottawas, Ojibwas, Sauks, Winnebagos, and a variety of métis in the region. While many histories of Indians deal with their dependency upon European or American economics or describe the inability of the Indians to defend their cultures or their lands effectively, Murphy looks at the various players in her story as complex individuals within layered cultures, attempting to make the best out of increasingly competitive economic and geopolitical positions. Quite often, as she argues, natives to the region not only held the line, but they gained ground in their negotiations with non-Indians. . . .

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