Our relations... the mixed bloods : indigenous transformation and dispossession in the western great lakes / Larry Nesper ; foreword by Mike Wiggins Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Ojibwe Ethnogenesis and the Fur Trade -- Anishinaabewaki, or Great Lakes Indian Country -- Fur Trade -- Indigenizing Fur-Trade Interpretations -- A Mythopoetic Account of the Fur Trade -- 2 Descent Ideology, Sociality, and the Transformation of Indigenous Society -- Race, Indians, and Mixed Bloods -- 3 Ojibwe Treaties, the Emerging Paradigm of Race, and Allotting Mixed Bloods -- Ojibwe Land Cession Treaties -- Alienability of Land in Treaty Land Provisions for Mixed Bloods -- The Mixed-Blood Provisions in the Chippewa Treaties -- 4 "Mixed Bloods" in the Southwest Sector of Anishinaabewaki -- 5 Implementing the Mixed-Blood Provision of the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe -- First Efforts at Mining the Penokees

Private Interests and the Locating of Mixed-Blood Lands in the Penokees -- Patenting the Mixed Bloods -- Plausible Deniability and the Dangers of Liminal Legal Status -- 6 Constituting Reservation Society on the Emerging Postdispossession Landscape -- Resource Extraction History -- Allotting and Logging the Reservations -- Constituting the Reservations -- 7 Allotment and the Problems of Belonging -- The St. Croix Chippewa Problem -- Chiefs and Headmen versus the Progressives -- Blackbird's Memories and the Political Aspirations of the Full-Bloods -- Actual Marriage Patterns and the Decline of the Mixed-Blood/Full-Blood Distinction -- The Long-Term Legacy -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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