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Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 / Karen V. Hansen.

By: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013Description: xxviii, 332 p. [32] pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199746811 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8009 HAN 23
LOC classification:
  • F645.S2 H35 2013
Contents:
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
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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

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