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Siege and Survival - History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Siege and Survival - History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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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.
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