The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920

The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920An 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.

Christian churches and social sciences

forced to leave home because there was no high school on their reserves

an essay by Gerald Vizenor

but masked men dressed as devils who vault over rows of squirming infants

The friendship and adventures of Iktomi

As winter falls

and physical education

Here is a wound

new accompanying materials add context through a cultural biography

or "Thanksgiving Address to Mother Earth

Fiona's desire to know more and her mother's reluctance to share stir up bitter feelings of anger and disappointment that slowly transform as she reads the stories into a warmer understanding of the difficulties of family

this book provides an important tool to those who want to be part of closing those gaps