Great Lakes Indian accommodation and resistance during the early reservation years, 1850-1900 / Edmund Jefferson Danziger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danziger, Edmund Jefferson, 1938-2019, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Great Lakes Region.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : The University of Michigan Press, 2012.

Summary:

During the four decades following the War of 1812, Great Lakes Indians were forced to surrender most of their ancestral homelands and begin refashioning their lives on reservations. The challenges Indians faced during this period could not have been greater. By century's end, settlers, frontier developers, and federal bureaucrats possessed not only economic and political power but also the bulk of the region's resources. It is little wonder that policymakers in Washington and Ottawa alike anticipated the disappearance of distinctive Indian communities within a single generation. However, these predictions have proved false as Great Lakes Indian communities, though assaulted on both sides of the international border to this day, have survived. Danziger's lively and insightful book documents the story of these Great Lakes Indians---a study not of victimization but of how Aboriginal communities and their leaders have determined their own destinies and preserved core values, lands, and identities against all odds and despite ongoing marginalization.

Contents:

A homeland and its people

Making a living

Agriculture on the Great Lakes homelands

Old and new alternatives to reservation agriculture

The homeland becomes a checkerboard : allotment and location tickets

Battling for the mind and soul

The education crusade

Traditional spirituality versus Christianity : finding a balance

Who shall rule at home?

Reservation politics : the challenge of shared governance

Moccasins in the mainstream.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.

ISBN:

0-472-90552-X

0-472-12545-1

OCLC:

1528419144

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access