TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hansen,Karen V.
TI  - Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 
SN  - 0199746818 (hbk. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Dakota Indians
KW  - North Dakota
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Indian allotments
KW  - Devils Lake Region (Lake)
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Norwegians
KW  - Rural women
KW  - History
KW  - Scandinavian Americans
KW  - Fort Totten Indian Reservation
KW  - Fort Totten Indian Reservation (N.D.)
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota
N1  - 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
ER  -