CREATING RESERVATIONS: TWO METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO INDIAN-WHITE RELATIONS

"Bringing Them under Subjection": California's Tejón Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852–1864. By George Harwood Phillips. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xvii + 369 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth).

Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805–1902. By Laura Woodworth-Ney. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. x + 234 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $31.95 (cloth).

John W. Heaton
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

The last few decades have witnessed an explosion of scholarship on Native American history and significant methodological developments. These two books by George Harwood Phillips and Laura Woodworth-Ney offer an intriguing juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary approaches to Indian-white relations. Together, they reveal the breadth of historiographical changes in this field.