Nancy Shoemaker

Publications

A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
Nancy Shoemaker (NEH, 1998-99)

The histories told about American Indian and European encounters on the frontiers of North America are usually about cultural conflict. This book takes a different tack by looking at how much Indians and Europeans had in common. In six chapters, this book compares Indian and European ideas about land, government, recordkeeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body.