..., Emporia State University Cash, Color, and Colonialism examines the importance of resources and racial identity in the public discourses surrounding the federal acknowl- edgment of tribes in the eastern United States. Cramer’s regional focus provides a comparative review...

... historians in the early national period used the archetypal “Indian” as a means through which they could critique the successes or the shortcomings of the American Revolution. Sami Lakomäki’s investigation of Shawnee identity makes important points about historicizing ethnicity and identity...

... identity, the efforts of northwestern California tribes to create their own archives as a strategy for pursuing federal recognition, and the strategies in both national and tribal museums for interpreting historic violence between natives and nonnatives. As the authors concur independently, most...

...Matthew A. Redinger The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina. Edited by Karush Matthew B. and Chimosa Oscar . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . vii + 309 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography...

... as dancing’s inherent ability to reveal how communities construct and negotiate ideas about identity, Krystal also believes that these expressive traditions transcend local and regional contexts. As such, they function as examples of something he calls “glocalities, places where people construct...

..., bibliography, index . $24.95 paper.) Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity . By Fisher Andrew H. . ( Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2010 . vii + 320 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $24.95 paper.) Copyright 2011...

...Thomas Lyle Whigham In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes . By Galindo Alberto Flores . Edited and translated by Aguirre Carlos , Walker Charles F. , and Hiatt Willie . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xxix + 270 pp., editor's...

... and actions. Although this article has focused on one group in particular—the Miskitu in Central America—this type of analysis is applicable to studies of race and group identity during the colonial period in general. At the very least, scholars would do well to question the racial terms they are confronted...

...., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, tables, figures, map, index. $35.00 cloth.) Copyright 2009 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 Book Reviews Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916–39. By Gabriela F. Arredondo. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x...

... 313 tions. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, for instance, codified the status of native people within the American political system, but those who resisted this policy tried to “redefine the boundary location of indigenous political identity, neither fully inside nor fully outside...

...Lee M. Panich The indigenous groups incorporated into the Spanish missions of Alta and Baja California faced a variety of challenges during the colonial period and experienced a wide range of outcomes in the persistence of native identity. The indigenous Paipai community of Santa Catarina, located...

... by which it was analyzed and presented in the book. Food, gender, identity, and space both public and private are seen as crucial components of the research mix, from which the rest of the book is prepared. The bulk of the book follows and is composed of two parts. In the first part...

...Strother E. Roberts The history of the Canadian Arctic and Subarctic hints at how certain aboriginal American communities constructed identities across the lines drawn by differences in language and culture. This history also suggests that aboriginal communities' ability, or willingness, to stretch...

...Katherine M. B. Osburn Federal Indian policy during the allotment era intersected with the segregated society of the Jim Crow South to create a market for Indian identity; the discourse of Indian blood was the currency of this realm. For the Mississippi Choctaws, heirs to the failed promises...

...Linford D. Fisher Tears of Repentance: Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England . By Rubin Julius H. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2013 . xiii + 405 pp., preface, introduction, tables, appendixes, bibliography, index . $75.00 cloth...

...Wesley Y. Leonard Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada. By Perley Bernard C. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2011 . xiv + 235 pp., acknowledgments, notes on terminology and orthography, map, notes...

... and Coushatta marketing techniques over time. As members of the Coushatta community in Louisiana pushed for federal recognition, basketry became an important symbol of potential economic self-sufficiency and indigenous identity. After federal recognition, basketry served as an important part of the community's...

..., not race, and “through sexual relationships, adoption, hard work, military service, or escape . . . captives could enhance their status or even assume new identities” (6). Although in certain cases native slavery could be just as dehumanizing and severe as Anglo-American slavery, con- cepts...

..., military service, or escape . . . captives could enhance their status or even assume new identities” (6). Although in certain cases native slavery could be just as dehumanizing and severe as Anglo-American slavery, con- cepts of identity in Indian society were still fluid and one’s status as a slave...

...David R. M. Beck Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment . By Miller Mark Edwin . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . xiv + 475 pp., illustrations, foreword, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper...