Encounter on the Great Plains

Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

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 America, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent. Although this historical encounter at Spirit Lake took place in a small corner of eastern North Dakota, it encapsulates the story of conquest and white settlement and the less publicized, but equally important, story of the dispossession and survival of Native Americans. The material wealth and the nationalist mythology of the United States are built upon this history.Karen V. Hansen captures this moment in time through the distinctive, uniquely American voices of this particular encounter while providing insights into similar cultural meeting points between Native Americans and European immigrants that played out across the western United States.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-31
Mått:155 x 236 x 33 mm
Vikt:726 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199746811

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Karen V. Hansen is Professor of Sociology & Women's and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care and A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England

Recensioner i media

Author Karen Hansen provides a fascinating and informative look at the relationships among the Norwegian, Dakota Indians, and the culture at large...the carefully selected maps, documents and photographs, together with thorough notes and a time-line, allow you to fully immerse yourself in the society that was and explore the changes in attitude - among the European settlers, the Dakota, and the government-over time...The book will both educate and entertain you.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of Figures ; Introduction: Illuminating the Encounter ; Part I. An Unlikely Encounter ; Chapter 1. Indians Never Knocked: Fear Frames the Encounter ; Chapter 2. The Scandinavian Flood: Land Hunger, Dislocation, and Settlement ; Chapter 3. The Reservation Land Rush: Allotment and Landtracking ; Part II. The Entangled Lives of Strangers ; Chapter 4. Spirit Lake Transformed: The Nexus of Schooling, Language, and Trade ; Chapter 5. Marking Nations, Reservation Boundaries, and Racial-Ethnic Hierarchies ; Chapter 6. Fighting the Sky and Working the Land ; Part III. The Divisions of Citizenship and the Grip of Poverty ; Chapter 7. Divergent Paths to Racialized Citizenship ; Chapter 8. A Fragile Hold on the Land ; Conclusion: Strangers No More ; Appendixes ; A. Historical Timeline ; B. Oral History Interview Subjects ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index