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Author Nesper, Larry, 1951- author.

Title Our relations... the mixed bloods : indigenous transformation and dispossession in the western great lakes / Larry Nesper ; foreword by Mike Wiggins Jr.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY Series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building Ser.
Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Ojibwe Ethnogenesis and the Fur Trade -- Anishinaabewaki, or Great Lakes Indian Country -- Fur Trade -- Indigenizing Fur-Trade Interpretations -- A Mythopoetic Account of the Fur Trade -- 2 Descent Ideology, Sociality, and the Transformation of Indigenous Society -- Race, Indians, and Mixed Bloods -- 3 Ojibwe Treaties, the Emerging Paradigm of Race, and Allotting Mixed Bloods -- Ojibwe Land Cession Treaties -- Alienability of Land in Treaty Land Provisions for Mixed Bloods -- The Mixed-Blood Provisions in the Chippewa Treaties -- 4 "Mixed Bloods" in the Southwest Sector of Anishinaabewaki -- 5 Implementing the Mixed-Blood Provision of the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe -- First Efforts at Mining the Penokees
Private Interests and the Locating of Mixed-Blood Lands in the Penokees -- Patenting the Mixed Bloods -- Plausible Deniability and the Dangers of Liminal Legal Status -- 6 Constituting Reservation Society on the Emerging Postdispossession Landscape -- Resource Extraction History -- Allotting and Logging the Reservations -- Constituting the Reservations -- 7 Allotment and the Problems of Belonging -- The St. Croix Chippewa Problem -- Chiefs and Headmen versus the Progressives -- Blackbird's Memories and the Political Aspirations of the Full-Bloods -- Actual Marriage Patterns and the Decline of the Mixed-Blood/Full-Blood Distinction -- The Long-Term Legacy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Subject Indians -- Mixed descent.
Indians -- Mixed descent.
Indians of North America -- Kinship -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
Indians of North America -- Kinship.
Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
Indians of North America -- Land tenure.
Racially mixed people -- America.
Racially mixed people.
America.
Great Lakes Region.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Wiggins, Michael S., writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Nesper, Larry, 1951- Our relations... the mixed bloods. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] 143848285X (OCoLC)1194957117
ISBN 1438482876
9781438482873 (electronic book)
143848285X
9781438482859