Encounter on the Great Plains Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930

Name: Encounter on the Great Plains Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
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ISBN: 9780199746811

ISBN-10: 0199746818

ISBN-13: 9780199746811

Edition: 2013

Authors: Karen V. Hansen

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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 neighbors, often becoming sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede native dispossession: by 1929, Scandinavians owned more reservation land than did Dakotas. In the words of one settler, who staked a claim with her widowed mother in 1905: "We stole the land from the Indians."Encounter on the Great Plains captures this encounter to bring together two key processes in American history: the unceasing migration of people to North…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/16/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.49" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Maps and Documents


Figures


Preface: The Story Dowser


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Illuminating the Encounter



An Unlikely Encounter



Indians Never Knocked: Fear Frames the Encounter



The Scandinavian Flood: Land Hunger, Dislocation, and Settlement



The Reservation Land Rush: Allotment and Land Taking



The Entangled Lives of Strangers



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



The Divisions of Citizenship and the Grip of Poverty



Divergent Paths to Racialized Citizenship



A Fragile Hold on the Land


Conclusion: Strangers No More


Appendixes



Historical Timeline



Oral History Interview Subjects


Notes


Bibliography


Index