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"Our Relations…the Mixed Bloods": Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes (SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building) by Larry Nesper, Michael S. Wiggins is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is "Our Relations…the Mixed Bloods": Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes (SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building) about?
In the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, "mixed bloods" were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal government. Larry Nesper focuses on the implementation and long-term effects of the mixed-blood provision of the 1854 treaty with the Chippewa of Wisconsin. That treaty not only ceded lands and created the Ojibwe Indian reservations in the region, it also entitled hundreds of "mixed-bloods belonging to the Chippewas of Lake Superior," as they appear in this treaty, to locate parcels of land in the ceded territories. However, quickly dispossessed of their entitlement, the treaty provision effectively capitalized the first mining companies in Wisconsin, initiating the period of non-renewable resource extraction that changed the demography, ecology, and potential future for the region for both natives and non-natives. With the influx of Euro-Americans onto these lands, conflicts over belonging and difference, as well as community leadership, proliferated on these new reservations well into the twentieth century. This book reveals the tensions between emergent
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- Author
- Larry Nesper, Michael S. Wiggins
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781438482873
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Social Science, History
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