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Michelle LeMaster , Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2012, $39.50). Pp. 304. ISBN 978 0 8139 3241 5 .
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In the continuously expanding field of southeastern Native American history, historian Michelle LeMaster has left an indelible mark in the field with her new monograph, Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast. LeMaster states that the "colonial Southeast provides a unique locus for evaluating the role of gender in shaping Anglo-Indian contact" (6), since within this period there was no clearly dominant culture. This "trilateral power struggle among European empires and the presence of substantial Indian populations" (187) required accommodation, understanding and diplomatic relations between very unique societies. These cultures, nominally separated between native and British within LeMaster's text, had differing, yet similar, views on gender that would shape the interactions between these cultures. Very well written and masterfully researched, LeMaster's work is an incredibly insightful discussion of how gender has shaped the colonial Southeast.
Throughout the monograph, LeMaster focusses on the use...