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Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 / Karen V. Hansen.
LIBRA F645.S2 H35 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Karen V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scandinavian Americans--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake)--History.
- Scandinavian Americans.
- Scandinavian Americans--Land tenure--North Dakota--Fort Totten Indian Reservation.
- Indians of North America--Land tenure--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake).
- Indians of North America.
- Ethnic relations.
- Norwegians.
- Dakota Indians.
- Rural women.
- History.
- Indians of North America--Land tenure.
- Land tenure.
- Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota--History.
- Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota.
- Indian allotments--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake).
- Indian allotments.
- North Dakota.
- Rural women--North Dakota--History.
- Dakota Indians--North Dakota--Interviews.
- Norwegians--North Dakota--Interviews.
- North Dakota--Ethnic relations.
- Fort Totten Indian Reservation (N.D.)--History.
- Fort Totten Indian Reservation (N.D.).
- North Dakota--Fort Totten Indian Reservation.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction: illuminating the encounter
- An unlikely encounter
- Indians never knocked: fear frames the encounter
- The Scandinavian flood: land hunger, dislocation, and settlement
- The reservation land rush: allotment and landtracking
- The entangled lives of strangers
- Spirit Lake transformed: the nexus of schooling, language, and trade
- Marking nations, reservation boundaries, and racial-ethnic hierarchies
- Fighting the sky and working the land
- The divisions of citizenship and the grip of poverty
- Divergent paths to racialized citizenship
- A fragile hold on the land
- Conclusion: Strangers no more
- Appendixes
- A. Historical timeline
- B. Oral history interview subjects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199746811
- 0199746818
- OCLC:
- 827724458
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