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Article: A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2005
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A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Nancy Shoemaker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii plus 211 pp.).
In a departure from traditional accounts of eighteenth-century relations between American Indians and Europeans/Euro-Americans, Nancy Shoemaker focuses not on the differences between these groups, but upon their similarities. Shoemaker examines the written accounts of speeches of American Indians recorded by scribes during treaty negotiations, as well as conversations between American Indians and Europeans recorded by soldiers, travelers, and explorers. The author finds that six topics frequently emerged: ...