Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England; Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History; X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent

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June 2011

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Priscilla Wald

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Book Review| June 01 2011

Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England

. By Jean M. O'Brien. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xxvi, 269 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.95.

Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History

. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95.

X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent

. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50.

Mark Rifkin

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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 449–451.

https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266135

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