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- 9780199746811
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- Oxford University Press
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- 09780199746811
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- 2013
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Item Length
- 6.1in
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- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Width
- 9.3in
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- 25.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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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 neighbors, 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. In the words of one settler, who staked a claim with her widowed mother in 1905: "We stole the land from the Indians."Encounter on the Great Plains captures this encounter to bring together two key processes in American history: the unceasing migration of people to North America, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent. 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. The material wealth and the nationalist mythology of the United States are built upon this history.Karen V. Hansen captures this moment in time through the distinctive, uniquely American voices of this particular encounter while providing insights into similar cultural meeting points between Native Americans and European immigrants that played out across the western United States.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0199746818
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9780199746811
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Publication Name
Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
384 Pages
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Item Length
6.1in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
9.3in
Item Weight
25.4 Oz
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F645.S2h35 2013
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"I wish more scholars were as open as Karen Hansen in sharing the personal ties that draw them to their subject matter, and I'm so glad she followed the trail of her childhood curiosity. Her sensitive, multifaceted, gracefully written portrait of the interactions between Dakota Indians and Scandinavian immigrants-both peoples feeling far from their native lands-is fascinating. I'm not surprised she received a postcard from one of her interview subjects saying, 'Thanks for making our lives more interesting.' Readers of this book will feel the same." --Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains and To End All Wars "Most 'multicultural' histories fail to capture how different groups have mutually shaped the conditions for each other's existence. In marked contrast, this remarkable account offers a layered and nuanced understanding of how the lives of indigenous Dakotas and Norwegian immigrants were deeply intertwined. Both groups resisted prevailing pressures to assimilate, but the distinct ways they were racialized led to dramatically different outcomes." --Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley "Karen V. Hansen's study links Scandinavian immigrant history and American Indian studies in ways never before attempted. Defined by federal acts, these cultures established parallel lives on the reservation across new and delicate ideas of landownership. Hansen evinces a profound sense of how stories contribute to a shared past, and Encounter on the Great Plains deserves a firm position in the canon of American Studies." --Oyvind T. Gulliksen, Telemark University College, Norway "A compelling account of the Spirit Lake Dakota Reservation, Encounter on the Great Plains narrates the interaction of massive Indian dispossession under the Dawes Act with the Homestead policy that drew land hungry Scandinavian immigrants West. Entangled with this place by her own family's past, Karen Hansen reconstructs an immensely complicated moment through the lenses of family history, land, citizenship, and culture." --Jean O'Brien, Professor of History, University of Minnesota "How did it happen that Scandinavian immigrants and their descendants came to live together on a Dakota Indian reservation? Here is the story, profoundly human, of dispossession and occupation: deftly nuanced, deeply sourced, engagingly written. A first-rate history." --Walter Nugent, author of Into the West: The Story of Its People "Author Karen Hansen provides a fascinating and informative look at the relationships among the Norwegians, Dakota Indians, and the culture at large. She explores their conflicting perspectives and weaves the recollections of the people of the area, both European immigrant and native, together to create a remarkably detailed picture of life on the reservation for both groups. Not only do you learn a lot about the history of this area and the immigrant experience, but you also gain an understanding of, as the title suggests, the 'dispossession of Dakota Indians'... The book will both educate and entertain you with its thoughtful study of Spirit Lake Reservation society in the early 20th century. If you're looking for a good book to read on this winter's long cold nights, I can heartily recommend it!" --Anne Sladky, Telelaget of America, "I wish more scholars were as open as Karen Hansen in sharing the personal ties that draw them to their subject matter, and I'm so glad she followed the trail of her childhood curiosity. Her sensitive, multifaceted, gracefully written portrait of the interactions between Dakota Indians and Scandinavian immigrants-both peoples feeling far from their native lands-is fascinating. I'm not surprised she received a postcard from one of her interview subjects saying, 'Thanks for making our lives more interesting.' Readers of this book will feel the same."-Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains and To End All Wars "Most 'multicultural' histories fail to capture how different groups have mutually shaped the conditions for each other's existence. In marked contrast, this remarkable account offers a layered and nuanced understanding of how the lives of indigenous Dakotas and Norwegian immigrants were deeply intertwined. Both groups resisted prevailing pressures to assimilate, but the distinct ways they were racialized led to dramatically different outcomes."-Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley "Karen V. Hansen's study links Scandinavian immigrant history and American Indian studies in ways never before attempted. Defined by federal acts, these cultures established parallel lives on the reservation across new and delicate ideas of landownership. Hansen evinces a profound sense of how stories contribute to a shared past, and Encounter on the Great Plains deserves a firm position in the canon of American Studies."-Oyvind T. Gulliksen, Telemark University College, Norway "A compelling account of the Spirit Lake Dakota Reservation, Encounter on the Great Plains narrates the interaction of massive Indian dispossession under the Dawes Act with the Homestead policy that drew land hungry Scandinavian immigrants West. Entangled with this place by her own family's past, Karen Hansen reconstructs an immensely complicated moment through the lenses of family history, land, citizenship, and culture."-Jean O'Brien, Professor of History, University of Minnesota "How did it happen that Scandinavian immigrants and their descendants came to live together on a Dakota Indian reservation? Here is the story, profoundly human, of dispossession and occupation: deftly nuanced, deeply sourced, engagingly written. A first-rate history."-Walter Nugent, author of Into the West: The Story of Its People
Table of Content
PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Illuminating the EncounterPart I. An Unlikely Encounter1. Indians Never Knocked: Fear Frames the Encounter2. The Scandinavian Flood: Land Hunger, Dislocation, and Settlement3. The Reservation Land Rush: Allotment and LandtrackingPart II. The Entangled Lives of Strangers4. Spirit Lake Transformed: The Nexus of Schooling, Language, and Trade5. Marking Nations, Reservation Boundaries, and Racial-Ethnic Hierarchies6. Fighting the Sky and Working the LandPart III. The Divisions of Citizenship and the Grip of Poverty7. Divergent Paths to Racialized Citizenship8. A Fragile Hold on the LandConclusion: Strangers No MoreAppendixesA. Historical TimelineB. Oral History Interview SubjectsNotesBibliographyIndex
Copyright Date
2013
Topic
United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / General, Sociology / Rural
Dewey Decimal
305.8009784
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
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