The Struggle for Self-Determination
Subtitle: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: December 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780803213470
Subjects: American history; American studies; Indigenous peoples; Menominee Indians; History - General History; History; History - U.S; History: World; North America; Native American; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; United States - State & Local - General; United States - State & Local - Midwest; History / Native American; Government relations; Treaties
First sentence: The treaty of 1854 reestablished a legal territorial base for a Menominee homeland in Wisconsin.
Description: "Drawing on meticulous archival research and a close working relationship with the Menominee Historic Preservation Department, David R. M. Beck picks up where his earlier work, Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856, ended. The Struggle for Self-Determination begins with the establishment of a small reservation in the Menominee homeland in northeastern Wisconsin at a time when the Menominee economic, political, and social structure came under aggressive assault. For the next hundred years the tribe attempted to regain control of its destiny, enduring successive policy attacks by governmental, religious, and local business sources." "The Menominee's rich forests became a battleground on which they refused to cede control to the U.S. government. The struggle climaxed in the mid-twentieth century when the federal government terminated its relationship with the tribe. Throughout this time the Menominee fought to maintain their connection to their past and to regain control of their future. The lessons they learned helped them through their greatest modern disaster - termination - and enabled them to reconstruct a government and a reservation as the twentieth century drew to a close. The Struggle for Self-Determination reinterprets that story and includes the viewpoint of the Menominee in the telling of it."--BOOK JACKET.