Hansen, Karen V. <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-322) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199746811 (hbk. : alk. paper) 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013004849 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scandinavian Americans--History.--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake)<br/>Scandinavian Americans--Land tenure--North Dakota--Fort Totten Indian Reservation.<br/>Indians of North America--Land tenure--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake)<br/>Indian allotments--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake)<br/>Rural women--History.--North Dakota<br/>Dakota Indians--North Dakota--Interviews.<br/>Norwegians--North Dakota--Interviews.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota--History.<br/>North Dakota--Ethnic relations.<br/>Fort Totten Indian Reservation (N.D.)--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F645.S2  / H35 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.8009 HAN