The Wisconsin Creoles

The Wisconsin Creoles PDF Author: Les Rentmeester
Publisher: Melbourne, Fla. : [L. and J. Rentmeester]
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Category : Creoles
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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The Wisconsin Creoles

The Wisconsin Creoles PDF Author: Les Rentmeester
Publisher: Melbourne, Fla. : [L. and J. Rentmeester]
ISBN:
Category : Creoles
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Great Lakes Creoles

Great Lakes Creoles PDF Author: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Great Lakes Creoles offers the history of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, from the perspective of its Native Amerian and French founders, as they endured the Anglo-American colonization in the 19th century.

Great Lakes Creoles

Great Lakes Creoles PDF Author: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113999297X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research on gender, race, ethnicity, and politics as it examines the ways that the old fur trade families experienced and responded to the colonialism of United States expansion. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy examines Indian history with attention to the pluralistic nature of American communities and the ways that power, gender, race, and ethnicity were contested and negotiated in them. She explores the role of women as mediators shaping key social, economic, and political systems, as well as the creation of civil political institutions and the ways that men of many backgrounds participated in and influenced them. Ultimately, Great Lakes Creoles takes a careful look at Native people and their complex families as active members of an American community in the Great Lakes region.

Calling This Place Home

Calling This Place Home PDF Author: Joan M. Jensen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519

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An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.

Women's America

Women's America PDF Author: Linda K. Kerber
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199349347
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 849

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Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its eighth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent developments in U.S. women's history.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin PDF Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island

The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island PDF Author: Theresa L. Weller
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Drawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa L. Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy-four members of the Agatha Biddle band in 1870. A highly unusual Native and Métis community, the band included just eight men but sixty-six women. Agatha Biddle was a member of the band from its first enumeration in 1837 and became its chief in the early 1860s. Also, unlike most other bands, which were typically made up of family members, this one began as a small handful of unrelated Indian women joined by the fact that the US government owed them payments in the form of annuities in exchange for land given up in the 1836 Treaty of Washington, DC. In this volume, the author unveils the genealogies for all the families who belonged to the band under Agatha Biddle’s leadership, and in doing so, offers the reader fascinating insights into Mackinac Island life in the nineteenth century.

Making Marriage

Making Marriage PDF Author: Catherine J. Denial
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873519078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Dakota, Ojibwe, and mixed-race communities resisted the early American version of marriage, in which women give up all rights to civic life.

Starring Red Wing!

Starring Red Wing! PDF Author: Linda M. Waggoner
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496215591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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The epic biography Starring Red Wing! brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, and noteworthy legacy of Ho-Chunk actress Lilian Margaret St. Cyr vividly to life. Known to film audiences as “Princess Red Wing,” St. Cyr emerged as the most popular Native American actress in the pre-Hollywood and early studio-system era in the United States. Today St. Cyr is known for her portrayal of Naturich in Cecile B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914); although DeMille claimed to have “discovered the little Indian girl,” the viewing public had already long adored her as a petite, daredevil Indian heroine. She befriended and worked with icons such as Mary Pickford, Jewell Carmen, Tom Mix, Max Sennett, and William Selig. Born on the Winnebago Reservation in 1884 and orphaned in 1888, she spent ten years in Indian boarding schools before graduating from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1902. She married James Young Johnson, and in 1907 the couple reinvented themselves as the stage personas “Princess Red Wing” and “Young Deer,” performing in Wild West shows around New York and beginning their film careers. As their popularity grew, St. Cyr and Johnson decamped from the East Coast and helped establish the second motion picture company in Southern California, where Red Wing became a Native American leading lady in westerns until her career waned in 1917. After returning to the reservation to work as a housekeeper, she took her show on a two-year tour to educate the public about Native culture and lived out her life in New York, performing, educating, and crafting regalia. Starring Red Wing! is a sweeping narrative of St. Cyr’s evolution as America’s first Native American film star, from her childhood and performance career to her days as a respected elder of the multi-tribal New York City Indian Community.

A Gathering of Rivers

A Gathering of Rivers PDF Author: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282933
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great Lakes region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a century the Winnebagos (Ho-Chunks),øMesquakies (Fox), and Sauks successfully confronted waves of French and British immigration by diversifying their economies and commercializing lead mining. Focusing on personal stories and detailed community histories, Murphy charts the changed economic forces at work in the region, connecting them to shifts in gender roles and intercultural relationships. She argues that French, British, and Native peoples forged cooperative social and economic bonds expressed partly by mixed-race marriages and the emergence of multiethnic communities at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien. Significantly, Native peoples in the western Great Lakes region were able to adapt successfully to the new frontier market economy until their lead mining operations became the envy of outsiders in the 1820s.