The Struggle for Self-Determination
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The Struggle for Self-Determination

History of the Menominee Indians since 1854

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Struggle for Self-Determination

History of the Menominee Indians since 1854

About this book

Drawing on meticulous archival research and a close working relationship with the Menominee Historic Preservation Department, David R. M. Beck picks up where his earlier work, Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634–1856, ended. The Struggle for Self-Determination begins with the establishment of a small reservation in the Menominee homeland in northeastern Wisconsin at a time when the Menominee economic, political, and social structure came under aggressive assault. For the next hundred years the tribe attempted to regain control of its destiny, enduring successive policy attacks by governmental, religious, and local business sources. The Menominee's rich forests became a battleground on which they refused to cede control to the U.S. government. The struggle climaxed in the mid-twentieth century when the federal government terminated its relationship with the tribe. Throughout this time the Menominee fought to maintain their connection to their past and to regain control of their future. The lessons they learned helped them through their greatest modern disaster—termination—and enabled them to reconstruct a government and a reservation as the twentieth century drew to a close. The Struggle for Self-Determination reinterprets that story and includes the viewpoint of the Menominee in the telling of it.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Preface: Shaping a Tribally Defined Existence
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Menominee Survival into the 1850s
  6. Abbreviations
  7. 1. The Early ReservationYears
  8. 2. The Pivotal Divide of 1871
  9. 3. Government and Religion
  10. 4. Twenty Million Feet a Year
  11. 5. The 1905 Blowdown and Its Aftermath
  12. 6. The Weight of Federal Wardship
  13. 7. From Allotment to Incorporation
  14. 8. Illusory Control
  15. 9. Termination
  16. 10. The Road to Restoration
  17. 11. Restoration
  18. 12. Tribal Self-Determination and SovereigntyToday
  19. Appendix
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index