The Struggle for Self-Determination History of the Menominee Indians since 1854 / David R.M. Beck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beck, David, 1956-

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-determination, National.

Menominee Indians--Government relations.

Menominee Indians.

Menominee Indians--Treaties.

Menominee Indians--History.

Menominee Indian Reservation (Wis.)--History.

Menominee Indian Reservation (Wis.).

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 290 p. ) ill., maps, ports. ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on meticulous archival research and a close working relationship with the Menominee Historic Preservation Department, David R. M. Beck picks up where his earlier work, Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856, ended. The Struggle for Self-Determination begins with the establishment of a small reservation in the Menominee homeland in northeastern Wisconsin at a time when the Menominee economic, political, and social structure came under aggressive assault. For the next hundred years the tribe attempted to regain control of its destiny, enduring successive policy attacks by governmental, religious, and local business sources. The Menominee's rich forests became a battleground on which they refused to cede control to the U.S. government. The struggle climaxed in the mid-twentieth century when the federal government terminated its relationship with the tribe. Throughout this time the Menominee fought to maintain their connection to their past and to regain control of their future. The lessons they learned helped them through their greatest modern disaster-termination-and enabled them to reconstruct a government and a reservation as the twentieth century drew to a close. The Struggle for Self-Determination reinterprets that story and includes the viewpoint of the Menominee in the telling of it.

Contents:

The early reservation years

The pivotal divide of 1871

Government and religion

Twenty million feet a year

The 1905 blowdown and its aftermath

The weight of federal wardship

From allotment to incorporation

Illusory control

Termination

The road to restoration

Restoration

Tribal self-determination and sovereignty today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-269) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610374687

9781280374685

1280374683

9780803252943

0803252943

OCLC:

62149400

Publisher Number:

2027/heb03500 hdl