Description: An evocative history of long frustration and ultimate failure, A Spirited Resistance tells of a creative people, whose insights, magic, and ritual add a much-needed dimension to our understanding of the American Indian.
Brief description: Gregory Evans Dowd is a professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 and War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire.
Review Quotes: Angrily reject[s] the Eurocentric assumptions of works that center on big-chief-hero or on isolated tribes. . . [and] departs from such atomized approaches to describe the attempt to combat colonialism through a religiously charged, pan-Indian militant movement . . . [Dowd] is sophisticated and exceptionally self-aware, recognizing how indebted even his counter-history is to European assumptions, and he tells an important and persuasive story.
--James R. Kincaid, New York Times Book Review