Facing East from Indian Country
{{Short description|2001 Native American history book}}
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| author = Daniel K. Richter
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| subject = Native American Studies, United States Colonial History
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| published = 2001
| publisher = Harvard University Press
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| pages = 336 pages
| awards = Finalist, 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History, 2001–2002 Louis Gottschalk Prize
| isbn = 0804728429
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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America is a work of Native American history by historian Daniel K. Richter that investigates the settlement of North America by Europeans from the perspective of American Indians.{{cite book |title=Facing East from Indian Country A Native History of Early America |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674011175 | date=30 April 2003 | publisher=Harvard University Press | isbn=9780674011175 |access-date=September 10, 2022}} The book was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002.{{cite web |title=The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/daniel-k-richter |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=September 9, 2022}}
Synopsis
Facing East begins by exploring, through available facts, possibilities of American Indian scenarios that have not been part of European-centered imaginations about American Indians. Richter goes on to show the active participation of American Indians in relations with European settlers, particularly their responses to "abstract material responses" brought about by European colonization. The figures Pocahontas, Tekakwitha, and Metacom are brought together in an analysis that shows their similar but varying deliberate involvements with Europeans. Richter relies on spiritual autobiographies and conversion narratives on American Natives by European colonists to elucidate an Indian point of view. Richter argues that American Indian participation in the Atlantic economy and warfare was essential and that Europeans and American Indians depended on each other. According to Richter, with the increasing animosity between American Indians and colonists, both groups developed their mindsets about each other.
Reception
Facing East received generally positive reviews and was praised for its writing style and argumentation.{{cite journal |last1=Emerson |first1=Thomas E. |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |journal=The Historian |date=2004 |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=159–161}}{{cite journal |last1=Perreault |first1=Melanie |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (review) |journal=Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History |publisher=Project MUSE |date=Spring 2003 |volume=4 |issue=1 |issn=1532-5768|doi=10.1353/cch.2003.0025 |s2cid=162331547 }} Gail D. MacLeitch in the Journal of World History, notes the importance of the work in addressing a lack of research on Native American history from their perspective and praises the book's subtle, adept and imaginative writing style.{{cite journal |last1=Macleitch |first1=Gail D. |date=June 2004 |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |type=Review |journal=Journal of World History |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=261–263 |doi=10.1353/jwh.2004.0024 |s2cid=161142005 |jstor=20068620}} In the Journal of Social History, Nancy Shoemaker writes, "Facing East from Indian Country will appeal to non-specialists, a general public, and students as well as to scholars in the field. It is precisely the kind of book that could succeed at realizing Richter’s longstanding crusade to earn for American Indian history a vital place in the larger narrative of American history."{{cite journal |last=Shoemaker |first=Nancy |date=1 March 2003 |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. By Daniel K. Richter |type=Review |journal=Journal of Social History |publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=808–809 |issn=0022-4529 |doi=10.1353/jsh.2003.0069 |s2cid=142583499}}
References
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Further reading
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- {{cite journal |last=Axtell |first=James |title=Daniel K. Richter. Facing East From Indian Country |type=Review |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=107 |number=3|page=872 |publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) |date=June 2002 |issn=1937-5239 |doi=10.1086/ahr/107.3.872}}
- Barr, Juliana. (2003). [Review of Facing East from Indian Country: A Narrative History of Early America, by D. K. Richter]. The Florida Historical Quarterly, 82(1), 87–89. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30149279
- {{cite journal |last=Birzer |first=Bradley J. |date=June 2005 |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter |journal=Indiana Magazine of History |volume=101 |number=2 |pages=183–184 |url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/12124}}
- {{cite journal |last=Carlos |first=Ann M. |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. By Daniel K. Richter |type=Review |journal=The Journal of Economic History |publisher=Cambridge University Press (CUP) |volume=63 |issue=4 |year=2003 |issn=0022-0507 |doi=10.1017/s0022050703362576 |pages=1169–1170|s2cid=155055765 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Carson |first=James Taylor |date=2002 |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |journal=The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography |volume=110 |number=1 |pages=101–102 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/99cac5404896ecbf2dbdf43b128b3533}}
- {{cite journal |last=Cobb |first=Daniel M. |title=Getting There (Non)Eventually: Recent Historical Scholarship on Encounters in Native America Before 1815 |journal=Ethnohistory |publisher=Duke University Press |volume=52 |issue=3 |date=1 July 2005 |issn=0014-1801 |doi=10.1215/00141801-52-3-635 |pages=635–641}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Gernhardt | first1=Phyllis |last2=Richter |first2=Daniel K. |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |journal=Journal of the Early Republic |publisher=JSTOR |volume=23 |issue=1 |year=2003 |issn=0275-1275 |doi=10.2307/3124988 |page=103| jstor=3124988 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Hackel |first=Steven W. |title=Facing East, or Looking Outward and Inward |journal=Reviews in American History |publisher=Project MUSE |volume=31 |issue=2 |year=2003 |issn=1080-6628 |doi=10.1353/rah.2003.0031 |pages=184–191|s2cid=144600130 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Hauptman | first1=Laurence M. |last2=Richter |first2=Daniel K. |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |journal=The Western Historical Quarterly |publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) |volume=34 |issue=1 |date=1 April 2003 |issn=0043-3810 |doi=10.2307/25047219 |page=82| jstor=25047219 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Hinderaker | first1=Eric |last2=Richter |first2=Daniel K. |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |journal=The Journal of American History |publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) |volume=89 |issue=3 |year=2002 |issn=0021-8723 |doi=10.2307/3092358 |page=1018| jstor=3092358 }}
- Marsh, Ben. (2007). Facing West, South, and North, as Well as East, from Indian Country [Review of The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, by K. Du Val]. Reviews in American History, 35(2), 176–183. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30031636
- {{cite journal |last1=McMichael | first1=Andrew |last2=Richter |first2=Daniel K. |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |journal=The New England Quarterly |publisher=JSTOR |volume=75 |issue=3 |year=2002 |issn=0028-4866 |doi=10.2307/1559796 |page=507| jstor=1559796 }}
- Merritt, Jane T. (2003). In Facing East, We Find Ourselves [Review of Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by D. Richter]. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 70(4), 439–444. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27778575
- Mullin, Michael J. (2002). Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. By Daniel K. Richter. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 26(3). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6p59h6qz
- Pointer, Richard W. (2003). Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Fides et Historia, 35(2), 177.
- Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. (2003). [Review of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by D. K. Richter]. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 127(1), 104–106. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20093603
- {{cite journal |last1=Sabo | first1=George |last2=Richter |first2=Daniel K. |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |journal=The Arkansas Historical Quarterly |publisher=JSTOR |volume=61 |issue=3 |year=2002 |issn=0004-1823 |doi=10.2307/40028036 |page=300| jstor=40028036 }}
- Shannon, Timothy. (2003). A Critique of Daniel K. Richter’s Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America [Review of Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by D. K. Richter]. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 70(4), 445–449. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27778576
- Starna, William A. (2001). [Review of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by D. K. Richter]. New York History, 82(4), 389–391. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42677801
- Theilmann, John M. (2004). [Review of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by D. K. Richter]. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, 105(1), 59–61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27570671
- {{cite journal |last=Williams |first=James Homer |title=Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America |type=Review |journal=Itinerario |publisher=Cambridge University Press (CUP) |volume=27 |issue=3–4 |year=2003 |issn=0165-1153 |doi=10.1017/s0165115300021057 |pages=326–328|s2cid=163967082 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Wood |first=Peter H. |title=Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter |type=Review |journal=William and Mary Quarterly |publisher=JSTOR |volume=60 |issue=3 |date=1 July 2003 |issn=0043-5597 |doi=10.2307/3491560 |page=672|jstor=3491560 }}
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External links
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