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Book Review
| Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805–1902. By Laura Woodworth-Ney. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. x + 234 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $31.95.)
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What creates an Indian reservation? Many histories have traced the establishment (and sometimes dissolution) of reservation boundaries, often limiting their focus to moments of diplomacy or imposition of government policy. In Mapping Identity, Laura Woodworth-Ney moves the story a step beyond the standard narrative, demonstrating that making and unmaking boundaries is intertwined with the imagination and articulation of political identity. The Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe and the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation emerged together, the result of interaction between Indians and non-Indians. And, as Woodworth-Ney points out, the creation of the tribe and the mapping of the reservation had consequences for both Indians and non-Indians, in the ways they imagined themselves and in the ways they interacted with the environment around them. |
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