| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3 | The History Cooperative

Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700–1850. By Larry Cebula. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xiii + 189 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, £37.95.)
In five chapters, Cebula reviews, based on extensive historical research, the encounter of Christian and Native religions in the Plateau region stretching between the U. S. and Canada. Neighboring the more dynamic Plains, Northwest, and more remote Southwest, this culture area, the staples of which were roots and salmon, was something of a "burnt over district" producing visionary Native prophets with wide, if diffuse, impact.	1
The first chapter, the weakest, purports to review ancestral Plateau religion, but it does so from a very alien perspective. The opening creation story is homogenized from richly diverse traditions, long interacting independently. The most current anthropological publications, even the Smithsonian Plateau Handbook (Washington, DC, 1998), are not cited. The significance of immortal spirits, powers, shamans, genders, seasons, and kinship are reviewed, but the latest reconsiderations of greater population and localized totemism are absent.	. . .

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