Against the tide of American history
Subtitle: the story of the Mille Lacs Anishinabe
Contributors: Buffalohead, Priscilla; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota
Publisher: Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Cass Lake, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Indians of North America; Ojibwa Indians
Other titles: Mille Lacs Band
Description: Europeans started arriving, among them French, British and American fur traders. Some European colonists stayed and began to compete with the Mille Lacs Band for resources and to encroach on their land. Such settlers continued to violate the treaties and agreements which the Mille Lacs Band made with the United States and British representatives over the decades. The Ojibwe also suffered because of new infectious diseases, which killed many. By the end of the nineteenth century, only a few hundred Ojibwe remained on the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation. At that time, pressing for assimilation, the United States government prohibited the Ojibwe from practicing their religion (many had converted to Catholicism but still combined it with traditional prayers and rituals), tried to have their children sent to boarding schools at which they were forced to learn and speak English, and virtually denied their right to govern themselves. Their traditional way of life was nearly impossible to follow. ..."--Frp, Wikipedia, Jan. 2013.
Notes: Cover title: Mille Lacs Band.

Written by Roger and Priscilla Buffalohead--p. i.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146).
Table of contents: title: Tribal heritage of the Anishinabe [traditions, clan system]; title: Tribal cultures at Mille Lacs Lake [outline of : old Copper culture ; Woodland people ; Dakota ; explorers ; Ojibwa; title: Chippewa]; title: The Mille Lacs Lake Chippewa [summer; title: winter homes, camps, maple sugar, wild rice, fur trade, social life and customs; title: family; title: children; title: chiefs; title: clans, cradleboard, pipe and tobacco, snowshoes, flute, bags, drum, dress & costume]; title: History of the Mille Lacs Anishinabe from 1800-1855 [treaties, Europeans, Indian policy, government relations]; title: The Taking of the land, timber, and the lake; title: The people who stayed at the lake, 1902-1926; title: The Mille Lacs Anishinabe and the Organization of the Chippewa Tribe; title: The Great Depression and World War II; title: The Time of change and new challenges; title: The Mille Lacs people in the 1940s and 1950s; title: The Mille Lacs people and the policy of self-determination; title: Mille Lacs elders remember the past; title: Conclusion.