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Our Relations...the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes

Our Relations...the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes

Nesper, Larry
Wiggins, Michael S., Jr.

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Ind

Native American HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 1438482868
ISBN13: 9781438482866
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2022
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.

In the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, mixed bloods were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal government. Larry Nesper focuses on the implementation and long-term effects of the mixed-blood provision of the 1854 treaty with the Chippewa of Wisconsin. That treaty not only ceded lands and created the Ojibwe Indian reservations in the region, it also entitled hundreds of mixed-bloods belonging to the Chippewas of Lake Superior, as they appear in this treaty, to locate parcels of land in the ceded territories. However, quickly dispossessed of their entitlement, the treaty provision effectively capitalized the first mining companies in Wisconsin, initiating the period of non-renewable resource extraction that changed the demography, ecology, and potential future for the region for both natives and non-natives. With the influx of Euro-Americans onto these lands, conflicts over belonging and difference, as well as community leadership, proliferated on these new reservations well into the twentieth century. This book reveals the tensions between emergent racial ideology and the resilience of kinship that shaped the historical trajectory of regional tribal society to the present.

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