Ojibwe in Minnesota

Name: Ojibwe in Minnesota
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ISBN: 9780873517683

ISBN-10: 0873517687

ISBN-13: 9780873517683

Edition: 2010

Authors: Anton Treuer

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With insight and candor, noted Ojibwe scholar Anton Treuer traces thousands of years of the complicated history of the Ojibwe people-their economy, culture, and clan system and how these have changed throughout time, perhaps most dramatically with the arrival of Europeans into Minnesota territory. Ojibwe in Minnesotacovers the fur trade, the Iroquois Wars, and Ojibwe-Dakota relations; the treaty process and creation of reservations; and the systematic push for assimilation as seen in missionary activity, movernment policy, and boarding schools. Treuer also does not shy away from todayrs"s controversial topics, covering them frankly and with sensitivity-issues of sovereignty as they…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date: 3/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

ANTON TREUER is professor of Ojibwe at Minnesota's Bemidji State University and editor of the only journal of the Ojibwe language. His nine books include Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, and two were selected as "Minnesota's Best Read of the Year." He has won many awards including from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.



Ojibwe in Minnesota


Ojibwe Origins and Migration to Minnesota


The Ojibwe Fur-trade Era, 1640-1820


Ojibwe-Dakota Relations


Treaties and Reservations


The Indian New Deal


What Sovereignty Means


Indian Gaming


Community, Activism, and the Ojibwe in Minnesota


Fighting Dysfunction


Revitalizing Language and Culture


Personal Account: Reflections



Suggestions for Further Reading


Notes


Index


Picture Credits


Acknowledgments