Encounter on the great plains Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890 - 1930

Introduction: illuminating the encounterAn unlikely encounter -- Indians never knocked: fear frames the encounter -- The Scandinavian flood: land hunger, dislocation, and settlement -- The reservation land rush: allotment and landtracking -- The entangled lives of strangers -- Spirit Lake transforme...

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1. Verfasser: Hansen, Karen V. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: illuminating the encounterAn unlikely encounter -- Indians never knocked: fear frames the encounter -- The Scandinavian flood: land hunger, dislocation, and settlement -- The reservation land rush: allotment and landtracking -- 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 -- A. Historical timeline -- B. Oral history interview subjects.
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 landtracking -- 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 -- A. Historical timeline -- B. Oral history interview subjects.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (S. 263 - 322) and index
Beschreibung:XXVIII, 332 S., [16] Bl
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780199746811
978-0-19-974681-1