The White Earth Tragedy

This compelling interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social, economic, and political relations among the Anishinaabeg and reveals how cultural forces outside of the reservation profoundly affected their lives.

Melissa L. Meyer is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

List of Illustrations

ix

Preface

xi

Introduction

1

(8)

Anishinaabe Migrations and the Genesis of White Earth Communities

9

(60)

Signatures and Thumbprints: Community and Ethnicity at White Earth

69

(68)

Jack Pine, White Pine, and Porcupine: The Alienation of Resources

137

(36)

Warehousers and Sharks: The Social and Economic Bases of Political Factionalism

173

(30)

``We Can Not Get a Living as We Used To'': Assimilation Gone Awry

203

(22)

Conclusion

225

(4)

Epilogue: ``White Earth Is Not for Sale''

229

(8)

Notes

237

(60)

Bibliographic Essay

297

(18)

Index

315

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The White Earth Tragedy

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