To Be The Main Leaders Of Our People (Native American Series (East Lansing, Mich.).) | 
| Author: Rebecca, Kugel
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1813030
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0870134310
Dewey Decimal Number: 977.694
EAN: 9780870134319
ASIN: 0870134310
Publication Date: September 1, 1998
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In the spring of 1868, people from several Ojibwe villages located along the upper Mississippi River were relocated to a new reservation at White Earth, more than 100 miles to the west. In many public declarations that accompanied their forced migration, these people appeared to embrace the move, as well as their conversion to Christianity and the new agrarian lifestyle imposed on them. Beneath this surface piety and apparent acceptance of change, however, lay deep and bitter political divisions that were to define fundamental struggles that shaped Ojibwe society for several generations. In this volume, the Ojibwe "speak for themselves," as their words were recorded by government officials, Christian missionaries, fur traders, soldiers, lumbermen, homesteaders, and journalists. While they were nearly always recorded in English translation, Ojibwe thoughts, perceptions, concerns, and even humor clearly emerge. To Be The Main Leaders of Our People expands the parameters of how oral traditions can be used in historical writing and sheds new light on a complex, but critical, series of events in ongoing relations between Native and non-Native people.
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 Fantastic! May 14, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the most compelling stories that I have read on the Indians experience with the Europeans. My son brought this home, it was one of his college books, and I could not put it down after I picked it up.
 How Native Americans Responded to the Westward Movement November 28, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just briefly, I am an historian so perhaps I am not the general reader. But I found Rebecca Kugel's account of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) struggle to adapt to the rush of Euro-American settlement utterly absorbing. It makes the choices faced by Native Americans, and the factional divisions among themselves, clearer than anything else I've read.I am impressed enough with the book that I intend to use it as a textbook in my college class next semester. We'll see if my Minnesota students are equally impressed.
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