North Country Captives: Selected Narratives of Indian Captivities from Vermont and New Hampshire. (book reviews)

Narrative accounts of white captives among Indians have long been seen by American literary and cultural historians as revealing the national myths, cultural identities, and/or racist tendencies of Euroamericans. While other historians have made limited use of certain captivity narratives, they have generally regarded the genre with suspicion because of its ideological underpinnings.

Recently that suspicion has begun to dissipate as a result of new scholarly approaches. Historians with a more certain grasp of Native American perspectives are distinguishing between lausible statements ...

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