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• W4239779928 abstract "Book Reviews 111 adding that “The four-day round trip from Detroit to Mackinac Island cost $7.00, including cabin and meals, or about 1 percent of Michigan’s median household income” (p. 204). These types of fact-filled passages keep readers who are interested in the minutia as well as those fascinated with the big picture turning the pages. I found the struggle by steamboat operators to consistently turn a profit to be an especially eye-opening theme. Economic depressions, wrecks, and bad publicity seem always to lurk in the waters ahead. Mounting railroad and highway competition required operators to gradually abandon once lucrative markets. Much of freight traffic was surrendered first, followed by long-distance passenger runs as timesensitive travelers took more expedient methods. Finally, after World War II, few routes remained aside from the large but fickle excursion business. Some lines pushed their aging equipment to the limit, while others, such as the Georgian Bay Line, tried to stay ahead of the technology curve. The “Sailing into a Headwind” chapter on ship operations during these difficult transitional years is especially well written. Rising labor costs and boom-and-bust business cycles doomed Goodrich, Michigan Transit, and other storied lines. A requirement in the Seaman’s Act mandating a certain ratio of crew members per passenger effectively cut the capacity of some ships by more than half. Stone tells this story while giving a nod to past scholars, including the late George Hilton, without bogging down his text with an overly academic tone. A few slight changes could enhance the presentation, including more photographs and maps, as well as additional details about the terminal facilities in major cities such as Chicago. Stone offers a fascinating section on an ill-fated attempt to revive the market with the massive Aquarama, capable of carrying 2,500 passengers and 165 cars that set sail on the Detroit–Cleveland route in 1957, but provides only a drawing of the ship. That being said, this book is a gem worthy of the attention of everyone interested in passenger service on the world’s largest freshwater lake system. Joseph P. Schwieterman DePaul University Christopher Wetzel. Gathering the Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Pp. 196. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth: $29.95. 112 The Michigan Historical Review What constitutes nationhood? This challenging question is central to the arguments Christopher Wetzel puts forward in Gathering the Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity. Can you have a nation without a nation state? Wetzel argues that the motivation behind nation building can be other than the creation of separate nation states. His book is about the cultural renaissance that is taking place in the United States and Canada among the disparate bands that make up the Potawatomi Nation. Potawatomi nationhood is an anticolonial process of imagining a community bound together by common values, practices, and networks,” he asserts. “The nation-building project being pursued by the Potawatomi does not currently aim toward consolidating gains in the form of a common central state, but instead focuses on social, cultural, and ceremonial ties” (p. 72). In 1983, representatives of all the Potawatomi bands assembled in northern Indiana to discuss the construction of a living history park at Buago Creek, an historical Potawatomi site. This event, according to Wetzel, marked the beginning of the current rise of Potawatomi nationalism, the first step toward what he describes as “intranational communication” among the bands. Why has this recent national renaissance occurred? According to Wetzel, political, legal and economic explanations, on their own, offer only partial answers to this question. Federal Indian policy changes, Indian activism, and demographic shifts have created conditions that have facilitated the recent rise of Potawatomi nationhood, yet in similar circumstances other tribes have remained fragmented. While Potawatomi casinos have brought in revenue for some bands and have provided funds for education, in general gaming ventures have had a fragmenting influence, promoting band identity rather than national identity. In explaining the Potawatomi revival, Wetzel focuses on three kinds of activities that have helped to foster this new sense of Potawatomi nationhood: the work of national brokers; language revitalization activities; and annual commemorative gatherings. Cultural brokers..." @default.
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