Leland Donald, Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of
North America
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, US$40). Pp. 379.
ISBN 0 520 20616 9.George W. Dorsey, The Pawnee Mythology (Lincoln: University
of Nebraska
Press, 1997, £20.95). Pp. 546. ISBN 0 8032 6603 0.Frederic W. Gleach, Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia:
A Conflict of
Cultures (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, £52.50).
Pp. 241.
ISBN 0 8032 2166 5.Richard G. Hardorff (ed.), Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight:
New
Sources of Indian-Military History (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press,
1997, £9.50). Pp. 211. ISBN 0 8032 7293 6.Michael E. Harkin, The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History
on the
Northwest Coast (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, £38).
Pp. 195.
ISBN 0 8032 2379 X.Jean M. O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and
Identity in Natick,
Massachusetts, 1650–1790 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1997,
£35, US$49.95). Pp. 224. ISBN 0 521 56172 8.Allen W. Trelease, Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: The Seventeenth
Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, £15.95).
Pp. 379.
ISBN 0 8032 9431 X.In the contemporary United States there are 556 American Indian groups
in 400
nations. Given that survival story, the tired myths of the disappearing
redman or
wandering savage which have distorted our understandings of Indian history
are
being revised. The reasons for our nearly four-century-long gullibility
are
manifold. The religion of winners and losers, saints and sinners, combined
effectively with the scientific racism inherent sine qua non in
the secular beliefs of
winners and losers expressed through Linnaean and Darwinian conceptions
of
order and evolution. After colonizers cast their imperial gaze through
lenses
made of the elastic ideology of “City Upon a Hill,”
“Manifest Destiny,” “Young
America,” and “White Man's Burden,” most Euro-Americans
rationalized a
history and present in survival of the fittest terms. By 1900, the near-holocaust
of an estimated ten million Indians left only 200,000 survivors invisible
in an
overall population of 76 million. The 1990 census count of two million
Native
Americans affirms resilience not extinction.
Cross Cultural Interpretation and Valuing of Northwest Coast Art by Natives and Non-Native Americans
