Research Catalog

Title

Our relations... the mixed bloods : Indigenous transformation and dispossession in the Western Great Lakes / Larry Nesper ; with research assistance from Amorin Mello ; foreword by Mike Wiggins Jr.

Author

Nesper, Larry, 1951-

Publication

• Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mello, Amorin
• Wiggins, Michael S.

Description

xvi, 247 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

In the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, "mixed bloods" were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal government. Larry Nesper focuses on the implementation and long-term effects of the mixed-blood provision of the 1854 treaty with the Chippewa of Wisconsin. That treaty not only ceded lands and created the Ojibwe Indian reservations in the region, it also entitled hundreds of "mixed-bloods belonging to the Chippewas of Lake Superior," as they appear in this treaty, to locate parcels of land in the ceded territories. However, quickly dispossessed of their entitlement, the treaty provision effectively capitalized the first mining companies in Wisconsin, intitiating the period of non-renewable resource extraction that changed the demography, ecology, and potential future for the region for both natives and non-natives. With the influx of Euro-Americans onto these lands, conflicts over belonging and difference, as well as community leadership, proliferated on these new reservations well into the twentieth century. This book reveals the tensions between emergent racial ideology and the resilience of kinship that shaped the historical trajectory of regional tribal society to the present--back cover.

Series Statement

SUNY Series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building

Uniform Title

Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Kinship > Great Lakes Region (North America)
• Indians of North America > Land tenure > Great Lakes Region (North America)
• Indians > Mixed descent
• Indians of North America > Kinship
• Indians of North America > Land tenure
• Great Lakes Region

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.

Contents

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis and the Fur Trade -- 2. Descent Ideology, Sociality, and the Transformation of Indigenous Society -- 3. Ojibwe Treaties, the Emerging Paradigm of Race, and Allotting Mixed Bloods -- 4. "Mixed Bloods" in the Southwest Sector of Anishinaabewaki -- 5. Implementing the Mixed-Blood Provision of the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe -- 6. Constituting Reservation Society on the Emerging Postdispossession Landscape -- 7. Allotment and the Problems of Belonging -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 21-5914

ISBN

• 143848285X
• 9781438482859

OCLC

1194957117

Author

Nesper, Larry, 1951- author.

Title

Our relations... the mixed bloods : Indigenous transformation and dispossession in the Western Great Lakes / Larry Nesper ; with research assistance from Amorin Mello ; foreword by Mike Wiggins Jr.

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY Series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building

Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.

Added Author

Mello, Amorin, contributor.

Wiggins, Michael S., writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5914