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Playing Ourselves: Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions (review)

Peers’s valuable study addresses the “process and implications” of adding Native programming and performance to historic sites and living-history museums. These have been spaces that, until the last three decades, have privileged dominantculture narratives and have generally silenced Native histories, despite First Nations and Aboriginal peoples’ importance and deeply complex interrelationships with non-Natives. Peers focuses on sites that reenact periods of sustained contact between Native and non-Native peoples in the Great Lakes region from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. These include the Northwest Company Fur Post in Minnesota, Colonial Michilimackinac in Michigan, and Lower Fort Garry, Fort William Historic Park, and Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. The performance programs at these institutions interpret for visitors the everyday lives of historic Ojibwa, Odawa, Huron, Cree, and Métis individuals and their interactions with non-Natives via the fur trade and mission work.