This is a welcome addition to the ongoing discussions in the increasingly sophisticated literature that explores the applicability, extent, and lasting significance of genocide in North America.  Avoiding the hyperbole and polemic found in some considerations of the subject, editors Woolford, Benvenuto, and Hinton have assembled a well-rounded, balanced collection, bringing together case studies from the US and Canada to provide ample regional variation.  Contributors consider ecological, political, economic, and cultural aspects of genocide in Native North America.  They rightly stress the centrality of settler colonialism to ethnic cleansing, assimilation, and related atrocities while arguing for a systematic understanding of genocide that refuses to reduce it to a series of disconnected and unfortunate episodes.  Though many of the studies use a historical lens, the collection makes clear the continuing impacts of genocidal projects, highlighting ongoing marginalization, dehumanization, exploitation, and trauma.  The editors deserve praise for the comparative dimensions of the volume, which look across time and space in North America and rightly anchor their project in the emerging field of critical genocide studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

--C. R. King, Washington State University

C. Richard King

Washington State University

http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.189064