The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (review)

Citing Womack in her introduction, Brooks declares her purpose to bring stories from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writings to contemporary northeastern Native people as a tool for ongoing building of the consciousness of the people: These early writings help us to see how Native nations continued to imagine themselves into being even as they grappled with forces that threatened to annihilate them. [...] these stories help us to imagine ourselves here, in relation to those that preceded us (xxxiii).