Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 /
Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Karen V. Hansen.
- xxviii, 332 p. [32] pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-322) and index.
Contents: Maps and DocumentsFiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Illuminating the EncounterPart I. An Unlikely EncounterChapter 1. Indians Never Knocked: Fear Frames the EncounterChapter 2. The Scandinavian Flood: Land Hunger, Dislocation, and SettlementChapter 3. The Reservation Land Rush: Allotment and Land Taking Part II. The Entangled Lives of StrangersChapter 4. Spirit Lake Transformed: The Nexus of Schooling, Language, and TradeChapter 5. Marking Nations, Reservation Boundaries, and Racial-Ethnic HierarchiesChapter 6. Fighting the Sky and Working the LandPart III. The Divisions of Citizenship and the Grip of PovertyChapter 7. Divergent Paths to Racialized CitizenshipChapter 8. A Fragile Hold on the LandConclusion: Strangers No MoreAppendixesA. Historical TimelineB. Oral History Interview SubjectsNotesBibliographyIndex
9780199746811 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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Scandinavian Americans--History.--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake) Scandinavian Americans--Land tenure--North Dakota--Fort Totten Indian Reservation. Indians of North America--Land tenure--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake) Indian allotments--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake) Rural women--History.--North Dakota Dakota Indians--North Dakota--Interviews. Norwegians--North Dakota--Interviews.
Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota--History. North Dakota--Ethnic relations. Fort Totten Indian Reservation (N.D.)--History.