Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans | 
| Author: Charles E. Cleland
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Category: Book
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Pages: 360
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0472064479
Dewey Decimal Number: 977.400497
EAN: 9780472064472
ASIN: 0472064479
Publication Date: November 15, 1992
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A comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region
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 The truth about Indians. And the respect they deserve. June 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Cleland's a prof at MSU and his book Rites of Conquest is pretty cool. The book is what he calls a "Ethno-antro historical look at the Indians of the Great Lakes. By Great lakes were're talking mostly Michigan and eastern Wisconson.
People have lived around the great lakes for aprox. 10,000 years. Only about 300 of those years include men and women of European ancestry living there. This seems to be a fact most Historians care little about. True, they left no writen records. Does that mean those people were less important?
Most histories begin with the arival of Europeans. This is fine, but more times than not, and it's especially true for older histories, even histories as recent as the 1970's--more often than not these historians are not properly informed on Indian customs. Or, if they are, they don't present the full story to their reader. From this negative stereotypes of Native Americans are born. Words like Indian Giver, and Savage. Misconceptions about Native Warriors. About the terms of treaties.
This book will tell you things you likely never knew about a people who lived full and rich lives. It will tell you how these people were coerced and cheated out of their land. How they were butchered and used as pawns in the power struggle between french, british, and americans. Interestingly, the natives had a unique relationship with each set of countrymen.
However, I found the most interesting stuff here to be about life before the white men. How a stable society was maintained without laws, without money, without technology. It's hard to imagine, but its fun to do it anyways.
 Excellent Buy! August 12, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am from Michigan and wanted to know about my state's history, so I picked this book up. This has everything you could possibly need to know about the Native Americans of Michigan, and the surrounding states. The only reason I didn't give it five stars was that it read like a text book. I felt like I was back in school. Out of all fairness, however, it is a history book, so I can't really hold that much against it. It gets redeemed by the small biographies scattered through the chapters.:)
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