Our relations... the mixed bloods : Indigenous transformation and dispossession in the Western Great Lakes / Larry Nesper ; with research assistance from Amorin Mello ; foreword by Mike Wiggins Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nesper, Larry, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Mello, Amorin, contributor.

Wiggins, Michael S., writer of foreword.

Series:

Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.

SUNY Series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Kinship--Great Lakes Region (North America).

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--Great Lakes Region (North America).

Indians--Mixed descent.

Indians.

Great Lakes Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

1 Ojibwe Ethnogenesis and the Fur Trade

Anishinaabewaki, or Great Lakes Indian Country

Fur Trade

Indigenizing Fur-Trade Interpretations

A Mythopoetic Account of the Fur Trade

2 Descent Ideology, Sociality, and the Transformation of Indigenous Society

Race, Indians, and Mixed Bloods

3 Ojibwe Treaties, the Emerging Paradigm of Race, and Allotting Mixed Bloods

Ojibwe Land Cession Treaties

Alienability of Land in Treaty Land Provisions for Mixed Bloods

The Mixed-Blood Provisions in the Chippewa Treaties

4 "Mixed Bloods" in the Southwest Sector of Anishinaabewaki

5 Implementing the Mixed-Blood Provision of the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe

First Efforts at Mining the Penokees

Private Interests and the Locating of Mixed-Blood Lands in the Penokees

Patenting the Mixed Bloods

Plausible Deniability and the Dangers of Liminal Legal Status

6 Constituting Reservation Society on the Emerging Postdispossession Landscape

Resource Extraction History

Allotting and Logging the Reservations

Constituting the Reservations

7 Allotment and the Problems of Belonging

The St. Croix Chippewa Problem

Chiefs and Headmen versus the Progressives

Blackbird's Memories and the Political Aspirations of the Full-Bloods

Actual Marriage Patterns and the Decline of the Mixed-Blood/Full-Blood Distinction

The Long-Term Legacy

Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4384-8287-6

OCLC:

1244620612