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1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrations |
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Michigan State University Press Native American series |
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Native American series (East Lansing, Mich.)
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: "You Don't Do Us Any Good At All By Being Here": The Uncertain Beginnings of the Ojibwe-American Alliance; 1825-18; Chapter 2: "We Did Not Understand It So": Political Division Becomes a Resistance Strategy; 1838-1868; Chapter 3: "In Religion and Other Things I Ought To Be The Main Leader of My People": The Ojibwe Reassess An Alliance; 1852-1; Chapter 4: "[W]e Can Get Along Better Than You Think": The Ojibwe Adapt to Changing Times, 1880-1900 |
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Chapter 5: "They Show Their Disposition Pretty Plain": Civil and War Leadership in Symbiosis at Leech Lake, 1870-1900Epilogue ; Selected Bibliography |
| Summary |
In the spring of 1868, people from several Ojibwe villages located along the upper Mississippi River were relocated to a new reservation at White Earth, more than 100 miles to the west. In many public declarations that accompanied their forced migration, these people appeared to embrace the move, as well as their conversion to Christianity and the new agrarian lifestyle imposed on them. Beneath this surface piety and apparent acceptance of change, however, lay deep and bitter political divisions that were to define fundamental struggles that shaped Ojibwe society for several |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Ojibwa Indians -- Politics and government
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Ojibwa Indians -- Kings and rulers
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Ojibwa Indians -- Government relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Manners and customs
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Ojibwa Indians -- Government relations
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Ojibwa Indians -- Kings and rulers
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Ojibwa Indians -- Politics and government
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.) -- History
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White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.) -- Politics and government
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White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.) -- Social life and customs
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Minnesota -- White Earth Indian Reservation
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98018860 |
| ISBN |
9780870139321 |
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0870139320 |
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9781628952209 |
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1628952202 |
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9781628962208 |
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1628962208 |
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