Red Cliff, Wisconsin: A History of an Ojibwe Community (Volume 1: The Earliest Years: The Origin to 1854)

Red Cliff, Wisconsin: A History of an Ojibwe Community (Volume 1: The Earliest Years: The Origin to 1854)Red Cliff, Wisconsin: A History of an Ojibwe Community, (Volume 1), is the story of the first three hundred and more years of the Ojibwe people in the Chequamegon Bay region of western Lake Superior. This volume covers the Ojibwes arrival, the coming of the French, English, and Americans, and concludes with 1854 and the advent of the reservation era. Telling the history of the first people in the area, Howard Paap expertly shows how the early French

history— some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato

they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania

Illustrated with 70 color images of visually powerful historical and contemporary works

and furious reckoning

and gender discrimination in the Indian Act

it explains how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world

and intellectuals

to the traumatic assimilationist policies that are still felt today

and selected stories from the rooms of AA meetings are presented for each of the 52 weeks of the year

This new Bison Books edition features an introduction by Susan Gardner and an index

distracting themselves from the bullying and isolation they've experienced since expressing their non-binary identity

Through meticulous detective work