ISBN:
0199968918
,
9780199968916
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxviii, 332 pages)
,
photographgraphs
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Encounter on the Great Plains
DDC:
305.8009784
Keywords:
Rural women History
;
Dakota Indians Interviews
;
Norwegians Interviews
;
Indian allotments
;
Scandinavian Americans History
;
Scandinavian Americans Land tenure
;
Indians of North America Land tenure
;
Indian allotments
;
Indians of North America ; Land tenure
;
Norwegians
;
Rural women
;
Scandinavian Americans
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Dakota Indians
;
Ethnic relations
;
History
;
Interviews
;
Fort Totten Indian Reservation (N.D.) History
;
Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota History
;
North Dakota Ethnic relations
;
Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota
;
North Dakota
;
North Dakota ; Fort Totten Indian Reservation
Abstract:
Introduction: illuminating the encounter -- Indians never knocked: fear frames the encounter -- The Scandinavian flood: land hunger, dislocation, and settlement -- The reservation land rush: allotment and landtracking -- 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 -- Divergent paths to racialized citizenship -- A fragile hold on the land -- Conclusion: Strangers no more -- Appendixes -- A. Historical timeline -- B. Oral history interview subjects.
Abstract:
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 neighbours, 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. 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index
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