Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 /

Hansen, Karen V.

Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 / Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 Karen V. Hansen. - xxviii, 332 pages : photographs ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.

Introduction: illuminating the encounter -- An 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.

0199746818 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780199746811 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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Dakota Indians--North Dakota--Interviews.
Indian allotments--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake)
Indians of North America--Land tenure--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake).
Norwegians--North Dakota--Interviews.
Rural women--History.--North Dakota
Scandinavian Americans--Land tenure--North Dakota--Fort Totten Indian Reservation.
Scandinavian Americans--History.--North Dakota--Devils Lake Region (Lake)


Fort Totten Indian Reservation (N.D.)--History.
North Dakota--Ethnic relations.
Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota--History.

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