Research Catalog

Title

Warrior nation : a history of the Red Lake Ojibwe / Anton Treuer.

Author

Treuer, Anton

Publication

St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

447 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common--and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservation land base. The people of Red Lake developed the first modern indigenous democratic governance system in the United States, decades before any other tribe, but they also maintained their system of hereditary chiefs. The tribe never surrendered to state jurisdiction over crimes committed on its reservation. The reservation is also home to the highest number of Ojibwe-speaking people in the state. Warrior Nation covers four centuries of the Red Lake Nation’s forceful and assertive tenure on its land. Ojibwe historian and linguist Anton Treuer conducted oral histories with elders across the Red Lake reservation, learning the stories carried by the people. And the Red Lake band has, for the first time, made available its archival collections, including the personal papers of Peter Graves, the brilliant political strategist and tribal leader of the first half of the twentieth century, which tell a startling story about the negotiations over reservation boundaries. This fascinating history offers not only a chronicle of the Red Lake Nation but also a compelling perspective on a difficult piece of U.S. history.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Alternative Title

History of the Red Lake Ojibwe

Subject

• Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
• Ojibwa Indians > Government relations
• Politics and government
• Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota > History
• Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota > Politics and government
• Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota > Biography
• Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.) > History
• Red Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.) > Biography
• Minnesota > Red Lake Indian Reservation

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references(pages 417-433) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: Battle River -- The spark: White Thunderbird and the Seven Clans -- The strategist: Moose Dung and the Old Crossing Treaty -- The nation builder: He Who Is Spoken To and the Nelson Act -- The uniter: Nodin Wind and the War on Culture -- The reformer: Peter Graves and the modernization of Red Lake politics -- The revolutionary: Roger Jourdain and self-determination -- The dreamer: Anna Gibbs and Red Lake shaping Indian Country -- Appendix 1: When the Dakota ruled Red Lake -- Appendix 2: Red Lake Reservation post offices -- Appendix 3: Red Lake place-names -- Appendix 4: Red Lake hereditary chiefs: succession lines.

ISBN

• 9780873519632 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0873519639 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780873519687 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015028414

OCLC

• 910980960
• SCSB-11027667

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library