Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World

Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World. By Ethan A. Schmidt. (Santa Barbara, Calif., and other cities: Praeger, 2014. Pp. xxx, 225. $48.00, ISBN 978-0-313-35931-6.)

This new book by Ethan A. Schmidt is the first single-volume treatment of the history of Native Americans in the Revolution since Colin G. Calloway's book The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities (Cambridge, Mass., 1995). While Calloway offers vibrant case studies of several key groups and their experiences, Schmidt's goal is a "comprehensive, yet succinct" account of all of America's indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi River (p. 6). The intended audience is students in upper-division history courses on the American Revolution. Lacking images, artwork, or graphics, and including just one map, the volume seems more likely to be...