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Great Lakes Indian Accommodation And Resistance During The Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900, John Bowes
Great Lakes Indian Accommodation And Resistance During The Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900, John Bowes
John P. Bowes
In his latest book, Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance, Edmund Jefferson Danziger presents a sound and straightforward argument. Through a series of chapters that cover reservation life, allotment, education policy, and missionary activity, the message is clear: American Indian residents of the Great Lakes region in the second half of the nineteenth century were active agents in their lives, not passive victims of federal government policies or settler invasions. It is an argument that noticeably reflects the critical developments of scholarship over the past several decades. And while some might debate the usefulness of such phrasing as accommodation versus …