Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Summer 2011
Document Type
Article
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 31:3 (Summer 2011).
Abstract
In this solid text Michael Oberg presents his version of American Indian history. From the start he works to avoid presenting just another encyclopedic narrative likely to leave readers "awash in a sea of facts and data disconnected from any coherent narrative." To this end he focuses on how eleven Indigenous communities dealt with the European invasions of North America. His list includes groups as disparate as the Chumash and Pueblo peoples in the West, the Potawatomis and Dakota Sioux in the North, the Crows, Kiowas, and Caddos in the Plains, and Eastern peoples such as the Mohegans, Powhatans, Cherokees, and Senecas. With this approach he illustrates the variety of these Indian nations' experiences in dealing with the changes wrought by contact with the invading powers.
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