xxviii, 332 p. [32] pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Interviews
Place:
North Dakota
Devils Lake Region (Lake)
Fort Totten Indian Reservation
Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota
Fort Totten Indian Reservation (N.D.)
Date:
2013
Contents:
Introduction : illuminating the encounter -- An unlikely encounter. Indians never knocked : fear frames the encounter ; The Scandinavian flood : land hunger, dislocation, and settlement ; The reservation land rush : allotment and landtracking -- The entangled lives of strangers. Spirit Lake transformed : the nexus of schooling, language, and trade ; Marking nations, reservation boundaries, and racial-ethnic hierarchies ; Fighting the sky and working the land -- The divisions of citizenship and the grip of poverty. Divergent paths to racialized citizenship ; A fragile hold on the land -- Conclusion : strangers no more
