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To be the main leaders of our people : a history of Minnesota Ojibwe politics, 1825-1898 /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kugel, Rebecca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, ©1998.
Series:Native American series (East Lansing, Mich.)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.