José Deustua

Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala: Sanford, Victoria: New York: Palgrave Macmillan 313 pp., Publication Date: May 2003

important as the lessons. France’s defeat opened the lands to the English-speakers and left the Native Americans without their traditional ally. The victorious British, in turn, alienated their own colonists with the Proclamation of 1763 that set aside transAppalachia for the “savages.” For the settlers, the legacies were many. A decade of fighting the Native Americans had led the settlers to hate them. Frontier Americans learned contempt for Britain’s politicians and generals, and even for their own colony’s eastern elite. Also, the tactics learned in fighting Native Americans would be turned against Britain’s army iii 1775. Finally, even as the West was “discovered,” its settlers armed and its infrastructure developed, a new “American” identity was yet another product of fighting the French and Native Americans at the very edge 0 1 “civilization.”