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Encounter on the Great Plains - Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 (Hardcover, New)
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Encounter on the Great Plains - Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 (Hardcover, New)
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In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake
Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled
against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of
Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not
impede their quest to acquire Indian land, and by 1929
Scandinavians owned more reservation acreage than their Dakota
neighbors. Norwegian homesteader Helena Haugen Kanten put it
plainly: "We stole the land from the Indians."
With this largely unknown story at its center, Encounter on the
Great Plains brings together two dominant processes in American
history: the unceasing migration of newcomers to North America, and
the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited
the continent.
Drawing on fifteen years of archival research and 130 oral
histories, Karen V. Hansen explores the epic issues of co-existence
between settlers and Indians and the effect of racial hierarchies,
both legal and cultural, on marginalized peoples. Hansen offers a
wealth of intimate detail about daily lives and community events,
showing how both Dakotas and Scandinavians resisted assimilation
and used their rights as new citizens to combat attacks on their
cultures. In this flowing narrative, women emerge as resourceful
agents of their own economic interests. Dakota women gained
autonomy in the use of their allotments, while Scandinavian women
staked and "proved up" their own claims.
Hansen chronicles the intertwined stories of Dakotas and
immigrants-women and men, farmers, domestic servants, and day
laborers. Their shared struggles reveal efforts to maintain a
language, sustain a culture, and navigate their complex ties to
more than one nation. The history of the American West cannot be
told without these voices: their long connections, intermittent
conflicts, and profound influence over one another defy easy
categorization and provide a new perspective on the processes of
immigration and land taking.
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