| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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Book Review

The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. By Kathleen DuVal. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $45.00, £29.50.)

Approaching early middle age now, the New Indian history has transformed early American history by offering forceful conceptual alternatives to the traditional narratives of conquest, resistance, and declension. In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal introduces yet another metaphor—and region—to the mix. Focusing on a somewhat neglected section of colonial America, the lower Arkansas Valley and its environs, DuVal traces the successive, often overlapping migratory waves of Indians and Europeans into the region, which over the centuries displayed elements of a racially-charged war zone, an imperial borderland, and a middle ground. Yet none of those epithets seem to capture the essence of the lower Arkansas Valley, which DuVal conceptualizes as a native ground. The term has a double meaning: it reflects the fact that each group claimed the valley as its native ground as well as DuVal's argument that, for a very long time, Indians, not Europeans, determined the form and content of inter-cultural relations in the region.

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