Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies

Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples.

Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples.

Claudio Saunt

Clearing a Path challenges readers to reexamine the common assumptions and seemingly self-evident truths that pervade Native American studies. . .these essays take creative approaches to questions both new and old. Clearing a Path will, without a doubt, provoke, unsettle, and inspire readers.

Nancy Shoemaker, Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, is the editor of Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women and the author of American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century.