[PDF.64rt] Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930

Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930

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 | #477857 in Books |  2016-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.90 x9.20l,.0 | File type: PDF | 392 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Very well written, neutral view is refreshing|By BirdWhisperer|I found a lot of interesting information in the 26 page introduction. (If you usually pass on those, read this one!) At that point, I could have quit reading and been satisfied with what I had learned. The rest of the book fleshes it out with individual stories and accounts to fill in details. It is okay reading| ||"I wish more scholars were as open as Karen Hansen in sharing the personal ties that draw them to their subject matter, and I'm so glad she followed the trail of her childhood curiosity. Her sensitive, multifaceted, gracefully written portrait of the interact

In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian land, and by 1929 Scandinavians owned more reservation acreage than their Dakota neighbors. Norwegian homesteader Helena Haugen Kanten put it plainly: "We stole the land fr...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930   |  Karen V. Hansen. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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