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Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 /

In 1904, Scandinavian settlers began moving onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry first and second generation immigrants struggled with poverty nearly as severe as that of their Dakota neighbours, often becoming sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homestea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hansen, Karen V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: illuminating the encounter
  • Indians never knocked: fear frames the encounter
  • The Scandinavian flood: land hunger, dislocation, and settlement
  • The reservation land rush: allotment and landtracking
  • 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
  • Divergent paths to racialized citizenship
  • A fragile hold on the land
  • Conclusion: Strangers no more
  • Appendixes
  • A. Historical timeline
  • B. Oral history interview subjects.