{"product_id":"our-relations-the-mixed-bloods-indigenous-transformation-and-dispossession-in-the-western-great-lakes-paperback","title":"Our Relations...the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry Nesper\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael S. Wiggins\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, \"mixed bloods\" were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal government. Larry Nesper focuses on the implementation and long-term effects of the mixed-blood provision of the 1854 treaty with the Chippewa of Wisconsin. That treaty not only ceded lands and created the Ojibwe Indian reservations in the region, it also entitled hundreds of \"mixed-bloods belonging to the Chippewas of Lake Superior,\" as they appear in this treaty, to locate parcels of land in the ceded territories. However, quickly dispossessed of their entitlement, the treaty provision effectively capitalized the first mining companies in Wisconsin, initiating the period of non-renewable resource extraction that changed the demography, ecology, and potential future for the region for both natives and non-natives. With the influx of Euro-Americans onto these lands, conflicts over belonging and difference, as well as community leadership, proliferated on these new reservations well into the twentieth century. This book reveals the tensions between emergent racial ideology and the resilience of kinship that shaped the historical trajectory of regional tribal society to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarry Nesper\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor (with Brain Hosmer) of \u003ci\u003eTribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by SUNY Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42098499059847,"sku":"9781438482866","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8314847e9f68e04120d228178bacc63d.webp?v=1732363934","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/our-relations-the-mixed-bloods-indigenous-transformation-and-dispossession-in-the-western-great-lakes-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}