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To be the main leaders of our people : a history of Minnesota Ojibwe politics, 1825-1898 / Rebecca Kugel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kugel, Rebecca.
- Series:
- Native American series (East Lansing, Mich.)
- Michigan State University Press Native American series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ojibwa Indians--Politics and government.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Ojibwa Indians--Kings and rulers.
- Ojibwa Indians--Government relations.
- White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.)--History.
- White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.).
- White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.)--Politics and government.
- White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 generations.
- Contents:
- 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
- Chapter 5: "They Show Their Disposition Pretty Plain": Civil and War Leadership in Symbiosis at Leech Lake, 1870-1900Epilogue ; Selected Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-220-2
- 0-87013-932-0
- OCLC:
- 606991829
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