Review of For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic

Authors

H. David Brumble, University of Pittsburgh

Date of this Version

1994

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:3 (Summer 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

The title looks forward to the writing of history from the perspective of Native Amer.. icans. Such history would be autohistory because it would be written by Native Americans themselves-and by those "who have an Amerindian soul" (p. 105). The "social ethic" in the title is to be a whole new "science": "The moral code specific to [Native] America is so distinctive that the study of it, through history, constitutes a science" (p. 104).