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Born of Lakes and Plains - Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West (Hardcover)
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Born of Lakes and Plains - Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West (Hardcover)
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Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And
at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex
households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and
create protective circles of kin. Beginning in the seventeenth
century, Native peoples-Ojibwes, Otoes, Cheyennes, Chinooks, and
others-formed new families with young French, English, Canadian,
and American fur traders who spent months in smoky winter lodges or
at boisterous summer rendezvous. These families built cosmopolitan
trade centers from Michilimackinac on the Great Lakes to Bellevue
on the Missouri River, Bent's Fort in the southern Plains, and Fort
Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest. Their family names are often
imprinted on the landscape, but their voices have long been muted
in our histories. Anne F. Hyde's pathbreaking history restores them
in full. Vividly combining the panoramic and the particular, Born
of Lakes and Plains follows five mixed-descent families whose lives
intertwined major events: imperial battles over the fur trade; the
first extensions of American authority west of the Appalachians;
the ravages of imported disease; the violence of Indian removal;
encroaching American settlement; and, following the Civil War, the
disasters of Indian war, reservations policy, and allotment. During
the pivotal nineteenth century, mixed-descent people who had once
occupied a middle ground became a racial problem drawing hostility
from all sides. Their identities were challenged by the
pseudo-science of blood quantum-the instrument of allotment
policy-and their traditions by the Indian schools established to
erase Native ways. As Anne F. Hyde shows, they navigated the hard
choices they faced as they had for centuries: by relying on the
rich resources of family and kin. Here is an indelible western
history with a new human face.
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