Title White birch, red hawthorn : a memoir / Nora Murphy

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents COVER -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- Stranded -- OLD STORIES -- The Cedars -- The Crab Apple -- The Pines -- American Chestnut -- The Elm -- CONQUEST IN THE MAPLES -- The Maples -- Wild Rice -- White Birch -- Potato -- COMING HOME -- Red Hawthorn -- The Chokecherry -- The Crab Apple -- Acknowledgments -- Resources and Further Reading -- Author bio Summary ""This is conquered land." The Dakota woman's words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors' homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphy's search for the deeper connections between this contested land and the communities who call it home. In twelve essays, each dedicated to a tree significant to Minnesota, Murphy tells the story of the grove that, long before the Irish arrived, was home to three Native tribes: the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk. She notes devastating strategies employed by the U.S. government to wrest the land from the tribes, but also revisits iconic American tales that subtly continue to promote this displacement--the Thanksgiving story, the Paul Bunyan myth, and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. Murphy travels to Ireland to search out another narrative long hidden--that of her great-great-grandmother's transformative journey from North Tipperary to The Maples. In retrieving these stories, White Birch, Red Hawthorn uncovers lingering wounds of the past--and the possibility that, through connection to this suffering, healing can follow. The next step is simple, Murphy tells us: listen"-- Provided by publisher Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Murphy, Nora -- Family Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Minnesota Eviction -- Minnesota Eviction -- Ireland BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. Eviction Families Indians of North America -- Land tenure Ireland Minnesota Form Electronic book LC no. 2017015738 ISBN 9781452954202 1452954208 9781452954196 1452954194 1517901324 9781517901325

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