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Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856
Contributor(s): Beck, David R. M. (Author)
ISBN: 0803213301     ISBN-13: 9780803213302
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
OUR PRICE:   $44.96  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2002
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Annotation: The Menominee Indians, or "wild rice people," have lived for thousands of years in the region that is now called Wisconsin and are the oldest Native American community that still lives there. But the Menominee's struggle for survival and rights to their land has been long and hard. David R. M. Beck draws on interviews with tribal members, stories recorded by earlier researchers, and exhaustive archival research to give us a full account of the Menominee's early history. Beginning in the seventeenth century, the Menominee's traditional way of life was intensely pressured by a succession of outsiders. Native nations attacked other Native nations, forcing their dislocation, and Europeans introduced the fur trade to the area, disrupting the traditional economy and way of life. In the nineteenth century Anglo-Americans poured into the Old Northwest and surrounded the Menominee; as a result the Menominee people were confined to a reservation in 1854. Beck examines these crucial early events from an ethnohistorical perspective, adding Menominee voices to the story and showing how numerous individuals and leaders in the trading era and later worked diligently to survive. The story is a complicated one: some Menominees encouraged radical cultural change, while others--as well as some non-Menominees--aided the community in its struggle to maintain traditions. Beck provides the most complete written history to date of this enduring Indian nation.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- History | United States - State & Local - General
Dewey: 977.400
LCCN: 2002003088
Physical Information: 1.23" H x 6.44" W x 9.66" (1.26 lbs) 294 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
 
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The Menominee Indians, or "wild rice people," have lived for thousands of years in the region that is now called Wisconsin and are the oldest Native American community that still lives there. But the Menominee's struggle for survival and rights to their land has been long and hard. David R. M. Beck draws on interviews with tribal members, stories recorded by earlier researchers, and exhaustive archival research to give us a full account of the Menominee's early history. Beginning in the seventeenth century, the Menominee's traditional way of life was intensely pressured by a succession of outsiders. Native nations attacked other Native nations, forcing their dislocation, and Europeans introduced the fur trade to the area, disrupting the traditional economy and way of life. In the nineteenth century Anglo-Americans poured into the Old Northwest and surrounded the Menominee; as a result the Menominee people were confined to a reservation in 1854. Beck examines these crucial early events from an ethnohistorical perspective, adding Menominee voices to the story and showing how numerous individuals and leaders in the trading era and later worked diligently to survive. The story is a complicated one: some Menominees encouraged radical cultural change, while others-as well as some non-Menominees-aided the community in its struggle to maintain traditions. Beck provides the most complete written history to date of this enduring Indian nation. David R. M. Beck is an associate professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of The Chicago American Indian Community, 1893-1988: Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Sources in Chicago.