Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Menominee World before Invasion 2. Menominee Country Becomes a Trading Frontier 3. Sovereign Alliances 4. Diminishing Fur Trade and Illegal Treaties 5. Menominee Resources under Siege 6. "Civilizing" Influences 7. A Dissolving Tribal Economy 8. Intensifying Encroachments 9. The Battle for a Homeland 10. Reclaiming a Piece of the Homeland 11. Siege and Survival Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Through interviews with tribal members, stories recorded by earlier researchers, and exhaustive archival research gives us a fuller account of the Menominees' early history than has previously been available

About the Author

David R. M. Beck is an associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of The Chicago American Indian Community, 1893-1988: Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Sources in Chicago.

Reviews

"Beck has written a comprehensive history of the Menominee people that replaces outdated earlier efforts, which by itself represents a valuable addition to the corpus of ethnohistorical writing on the Old Northwest. The book's strength lies in the solid implementation of historical method in telling the story of Euroamerican colonialism from a Native perspective."-Anthropos, 99.2004