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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779217603321

Autore

Karamanski Theodore J. <1953->

Titolo

Blackbird's song [[electronic resource] ] : Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa people / / Theodore J. Karamanski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-62895-059-5

1-60917-337-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Disciplina

977.4004/973360092

Soggetti

Ottawa Indians - Michigan

Indian authors - Michigan

Ottawa Indians - History

Ottawa Indians - Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Forest Youth; 2. The Crisis; 3. A New World; 4. We Now Wish to Become Men; 5. Citizen Blackbird; 6. Doing Good amongst My People; 7. Light and Shadows; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For much of U.S. history, the story of native people has been written by historians and anthropologists relying on the often biased accounts of European-American observers. Though we have become well acquainted with war chiefs like Pontiac and Crazy Horse, it has been at the expense of better knowing civic-minded intellectuals like Andrew J. Blackbird, who sought in 1887 to give a voice to his people through his landmark book History of the Ottawa and Chippewa People. Blackbird chronicled the numerous ways in which these Great Lakes people fought to retain their land and culture, first with