Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A Historical Accounting of the Anishnaabeg People

2. The French Period: The 1600s to 1763

3. The British Period: 1763 to 1795

4. The United States and the Division of the Anishnaabeg Homeland

5. Anishnaabeg Treaty-Making and the Removal Period

6. Twenty-First-Century Conditions, and Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Promotional Information

A comprehensive history of the Anishnaabeg people of the Lake Huron borderlands between the United States and Canada.

About the Author

Phil Bellfy (White Earth Chippewa) is a professor emeritus of American Indian studies at Michigan State University. He is the author of Indians and Other Misnomers: A Cross-Referenced Dictionary of the People, Persons, and Places of Native North America.
 

Reviews

“[Three Fires Unity] provides an important starting point for the construction of an aboriginal-centered history of the region.”—Allan K. McDougall, Journal of Anthropological Research
 

 

“Culling data from an array of important Canadian and American primary sources, Bellfy has indeed uncovered a surprising amount of cross-border political activity.”—Rebecca Kugel, Studies in American Indian Literatures