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)
2013004849
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.
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)
2013004849
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.