To be the main leaders of our people : a history of Minnesota Ojibwe politics, 1825-1898 / Rebecca Kugel.
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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| Language: | English |
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East Lansing, Mich. :
Michigan State University Press,
[1998], ©1998.
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| Series: | Native American series (East Lansing, Mich.)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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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 well as their conversion to Christianity and the new agrarian lifestyle imposed on them. Beneath this surface piety and apparent acceptance of change, however, lay deep and bitter political divisions that were to define fundamental struggles that shaped Ojibwe society for several. |
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| Note: | Electronic resource. |
| Call Number: | E99.C6 K84 1998 |
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1460L Lexile |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780870139321 0870139320 9781628952209 1628952202 9781628962208 1628962208 |
| System Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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Print version record. |