Download or read book Mni Wakan Oyate Spirit Lake Nation written by Mark Diedrich and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the various Sisituwan, Wahpeton, Pabaksa (Cut Head), and other remnants of the Dakota tribe which eventually settled on the Spirit Lake Reservation in northeastern North Dakota. Once centered around Lake Traverse, these Dakota were avid buffalo hunters, who claimed the region north to Mni Wakan, or Spirit Lake (or the white man's "Devils Lake"). In the fall of 1862, war broke out on the Minnesota River Reservation established by the Treaty of 1851, and some of the Northern Sisituwan and Cut Head bands participated in attacks on Fort Abercrombie. The resulting years saw the Dakota scattered all over the upper Great Plains. Eventually, U.S. military expeditions and peace commissions induced most to surrender. The Treaty of 1867 gave the Sisituwan, Wahpeton, and Pabaksa a reservation at Devils Lake. This book follows their story through the early years of semi-starvation, enforced acculturation, military occupation, reservation encroachment, and allotment. As the Dakota became increasingly poor and landless, the Great Depression brought doubly depressed conditions. Many Dakota served during World War II, but came back to poverty and unemployment. Quite a number of people left in the 1950s, when the government sponsored their relocation. It was not until the mid 1960s that the Dakota began to get the help of federal monies and loans to upgrade conditions on the reservation. Jobs were finally brought to the reservation by the establishment of Devils Lake Sioux Manufacturing Corporation in 1974. In the 1990s, the tribe was able to build the successful Spirit Lake Casino and Resort.
Download or read book The History and Culture of the Mni Wakan Oyate Spirit Lake Nation written by Louis Garcia and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Translated Nation written by Christopher J. Pexa and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state Translated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhóta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative Dakhóta responses to violences of the settler colonial state. Christopher Pexa argues that the assimilation era of federal U.S. law and policy was far from an idle one for the Dakhóta people, but rather involved remaking the Oyáte (the Očéti Šakówiŋ Oyáte or People of the Seven Council Fires) through the encrypting of Dakhóta political and relational norms in plain view of settler audiences. From Nicholas Black Elk to Charles Alexander Eastman to Ella Cara Deloria, Pexa analyzes well-known writers from a tribally centered perspective that highlights their contributions to Dakhóta/Lakhóta philosophy and politics. He explores how these authors, as well as oral histories from the Spirit Lake Dakhóta Nation, invoke thióšpaye (extended family or kinship) ethics to critique U.S. legal translations of Dakhóta relations and politics into liberal molds of heteronormativity, individualism, property, and citizenship. He examines how Dakhóta intellectuals remained part of their social frameworks even while negotiating the possibilities and violence of settler colonial framings, ideologies, and social forms. Bringing together oral and written as well as past and present literatures, Translated Nation expands our sense of literary archives and political agency and demonstrates how Dakhóta peoplehood not only emerges over time but in everyday places, activities, and stories. It provides a distinctive view of the hidden vibrancy of a historical period that is often tied only to Indigenous survival.
Download or read book Aren t We Sioux Enough written by Eunice Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aren't We Sioux Enough" this is the story of the University of North Dakota, Fighting Sioux controversy through the eyes of the Dakota Sioux supporters Tribal Members on the Spirit Lake Nation. It tells of the confusion they faced, when doing what was asked of them, only to find road blocks at every turn. You will walk with them as their joy and pride turns into confusion, then into hurt, then to anger, as they come to learn just who they are actually fighting in this quest to remove an 80 year tradition. You well come to understand how 80 years of honorable and respected tradition is transformed into a distorted and disgusting sham. "Aren't We Sioux Enough" exposes Political Correctness for what it truly is. It tells the story of how PC was used to deceive the public of truth, to gain a personal victory during the battle from 2007 till 2012 for a small group. It was used to justify how a small "supposedly caring" group of the PC crowd, covered up their true intentions. The deceit used against Native American Indians for centuries is alive and well today and is exposed in this book. Only the actors names have changed in the last 200 years, but the results are the same "Native American Indians must be minimized and ignored."
Download or read book Witness written by Waggoner, Josephine and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¾–Josephine Waggonerês writings offer a unique perspective on the Lakota. Witness will become a widely referenced primary source. Emily Levine has meticulously examined all known collections of Waggonerês manuscripts, sometimes comparing handwritten drafts with multiple typed copies to preserve information in full. Levineês extensive notes are well chosen and informative. Witness will interest both specialist and popular audiences.”ãRaymond DeMallie, Chancellorsê Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University¾ During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871_1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders died without passing along their knowledge. A skilled writer, Waggoner set out to record the lifeways of her people and correct much of the misinformation about them spread by white writers, journalists, and scholars of the day. To accomplish this task, she traveled to several Lakota and Dakota reservations to interview chiefs, elders, traditional tribal historians, and other tribal members, including women.¾¾ Published for the first time and augmented by extensive annotations, Witness offers a rare participantês perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lakota and Dakota life. The first of Waggonerês two manuscripts presented here includes extraordinary firsthand and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members, such as accounts of life in the Powder River camps and at the agencies in the 1870s, the experiences of a mixed-blood HÏ?kpap?a girl at the first off-reservation boarding school, and descriptions of traditional beliefs. The second manuscript consists of Waggonerês sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with the men themselves. Together these singular manuscripts provide new and extensive information on the history, culture, and experiences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.
Download or read book Discussion Draft Legislation to Address Law and Order in Indian Country written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Americans written by Thomas Grillot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity. Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was reinvented in the years following World War I. During that conflict, twelve thousand Native American soldiers served in the U.S. Army. They returned home to their reservations with newfound patriotism, leveraging their veteran cachet for political power and claiming all the benefits of citizenship—even supporting the termination policy that ended the U.S. government’s recognition of tribal sovereignty.
Download or read book The Problem of Indian Administration written by Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gambling Space and Time written by Pauliina Raento and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight essays in Gambling, Space, and Time use a global and interdisciplinary approach to examine two significant areas of gambling studies that have not been widely explored--the ever-changing boundaries that divide and organize gambling spaces, and the cultures, perceptions, and emotions related to gambling. The contributors represent a variety of disciplines: history, geography, sociology, anthropology, political science, and law. The essays consider such topics as the impact of technological advances on gambling activities, the role of the nation-state in the gambling industry, and the ways that cultural and moral values influence the availability of gambling and the behavior of gamblers. The case studies offer rich new insights into a gambling industry that is both a global phenomenon and a powerful engine of local change.
Download or read book Clearing a Path written by Nancy Shoemaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples.
Download or read book The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists written by Arlene B. Hirschfelder and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicates information about the histories, contemporary presence, and various other facts of the Native peoples of the United States. From publisher description.
Download or read book Atlas of the North American Indian written by Carl Waldman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated reference that covers the history, culture and tribal distribution of North American Indians.
Download or read book Devils Lake Emergency Outlet Scoping Document written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devils Lake North Dakota Integrated Planning Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Witness Blanket written by Carey Newman and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada. Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure that history is never forgotten. The Blanket is a living work of art—a collection of hundreds of objects from those schools. It includes everything from photos, bricks, hockey skates, graduation certificates, dolls and piano keys to braids of hair. Behind every piece is a story. And behind every story is a residential school Survivor, including Carey's father. This book is a collection of truths about what happened at those schools, but it's also a beacon of hope and a step on the journey toward reconciliation.
Download or read book Tribal Libraries in the United States written by Elizabeth Peterson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by and for a specific American Indian community and offering special materials related to the tribe itself, a tribal library may also serve as homework center, a reading room, a tribal archive or a community center. Entries offer information on each tribe's ethnology, language and history, location and contact details, as well as a description of collections, services and access policies. Input from library staff and patrons about what makes their libraries unique and important to their communities is also included. Maps are included to show the locations of the libraries in each state.
Download or read book The Farmer s Lawyer written by Sarah Vogel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new foreword by Willie Nelson "An exquisitely written American saga." --Sarah Smarsh The "remarkably well told and heartfelt" (John Grisham) story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of family farmers. In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota. Sarah, a young lawyer and single mother, listened to farmers who were on the verge of losing everything and, inspired by the politicians who had helped farmers in the '30s, she naively built a solo practice of clients who couldn't afford to pay her. Sarah began drowning in debt and soon her own home was facing foreclosure. In a David and Goliath legal battle reminiscent of A Civil Action or Erin Brockovich, Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' Constitutional rights. It was her first case. A courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on for our daily bread almost fell apart due to the willful neglect of those charged to protect it, and what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again.
