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- Release Year
- 2016
- Book Title
- Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the D...
- ISBN
- 9780190624545
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019062454X
ISBN-13
9780190624545
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038264281
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Publication Name
Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Native American, Sociology / Rural
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.8009784
Table Of Content
Maps and Documents Figures Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: Illuminating the Encounter Part I. An Unlikely Encounter Chapter 1. Indians Never Knocked: Fear Frames the Encounter Chapter 2. The Scandinavian Flood: Land Hunger, Dislocation, and Settlement Chapter 3. The Reservation Land Rush: Allotment and Land Taking Part II. The Entangled Lives of Strangers Chapter 4. Spirit Lake Transformed: The Nexus of Schooling, Language, and Trade Chapter 5. Marking Nations, Reservation Boundaries, and Racial-Ethnic Hierarchies Chapter 6. Fighting the Sky and Working the Land Part III. The Divisions of Citizenship and the Grip of Poverty Chapter 7. Divergent Paths to Racialized Citizenship Chapter 8. A Fragile Hold on the Land Conclusion: Strangers No More Appendixes A. Historical Timeline B. Oral History Interview Subjects Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian land, and by 1929 Scandinavians owned more reservation acreage than their Dakota neighbors. Norwegian homesteader Helena Haugen Kanten put it plainly: "We stole the land from the Indians." With this largely unknown story at its center, Encounter on the Great Plains brings together two dominant processes in American history: the unceasing migration of newcomers to North America, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent. Drawing on fifteen years of archival research and 130 oral histories, Karen V. Hansen explores the epic issues of co-existence between settlers and Indians and the effect of racial hierarchies, both legal and cultural, on marginalized peoples. Hansen offers a wealth of intimate detail about daily lives and community events, showing how both Dakotas and Scandinavians resisted assimilation and used their rights as new citizens to combat attacks on their cultures. In this flowing narrative, women emerge as resourceful agents of their own economic interests. Dakota women gained autonomy in the use of their allotments, while Scandinavian women staked and "proved up" their own claims. Hansen chronicles the intertwined stories of Dakotas and immigrants-women and men, farmers, domestic servants, and day laborers. Their shared struggles reveal efforts to maintain a language, sustain a culture, and navigate their complex ties to more than one nation. The history of the American West cannot be told without these voices: their long connections, intermittent conflicts, and profound influence over one another defy easy categorization and provide a new perspective on the processes of immigration and land taking., When Scandinavian immigrants and Dakota Indians lived side by side on a turn-of-the-century reservation, each struggled independently to preserve their language and culture. Despite this shared struggle, European settlers expanded their land ownership throughout the period while Native Americans were marginalized on the reservations intended for them. Karen Hansen captures this moment through distinctive, uniquely American voices to show how encounters between Native Americans and European immigrants played out across the western United States.
LC Classification Number
F645.S2H35 2016
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