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Book

Our people, our journey : the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians

Call Numbers

  • H 977.400497 M4788 (CEN)
  • 977.400497 M4788 (CEN)

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Publication Information

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2009.

Physical Description

xxiii, 370 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Summary

From the Publisher: Our People, Our Journey is a landmark history of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, a Michigan tribe that has survived to the present day despite the expansionist and assimilationist policies that nearly robbed it of an identity in the late nineteenth century.

Contents

  • In memory of Margaret Chandler
  • Preface
  • Land beneath the trees
  • Introduction: Analytical paradigm
  • 1: When the Europeans came
  • 2: Kinsmen and confederates
  • 3: Coexistence and conquest
  • 4: Will of the grand council
  • 5: Civilizing the Ottawas
  • 6: Strong titles and the government "swan"
  • 7: Not a tent, a wigwam, nor a camp fire
  • 8: New communities, established leaders
  • 9: Great excitement among the Indians
  • 10: Accidents of history
  • 11: Opposite of intentions
  • 12: Council of Ogemuk
  • 13: On the outskirts
  • 14: Teaching the children
  • 15: Small victory
  • 16: Community councils to business committees
  • 17: Desperate decade
  • 18: New deal, renewed hope
  • 19: No one's responsibility
  • 20: Whole of the Holst report
  • 21: Indian problems
  • 22: Advocate and 'attorney for the people'
  • 23: Decades of success and political evolution
  • 24: Distinct, separate, and sovereign
  • 25: Constructing a new government
  • 26: Ancient community, a new century
  • Index of tribal councils and Ogemuk since reaffirmation (1994)
  • Abbreviations used in the notes and references
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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