By Karen V. Hansen

ISBN-10: 019062454X

ISBN-13: 9780190624545

ISBN-10: 0199746818

ISBN-13: 9780199746811

In 1904, the 1st Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. those land-hungry immigrants struggled opposed to serious poverty, frequently changing into the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. but the homesteaders' impoverishment didn't bog down their quest to procure Indian land, and through 1929 Scandinavians owned extra reservation acreage than their Dakota acquaintances. Norwegian homesteader Helena Haugen Kanten placed it evidently: "We stole the land from the Indians."

With this principally unknown tale at its middle, come across at the nice Plains brings jointly dominant techniques in American heritage: the unceasing migration of newbies to North the US, and the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent.

Drawing on fifteen years of archival study and one hundred thirty oral histories, Karen V. Hansen explores the epic problems with co-existence among settlers and Indians and the impact of racial hierarchies, either felony and cultural, on marginalized peoples. Hansen bargains a wealth of intimate element approximately day-by-day lives and neighborhood occasions, exhibiting how either Dakotas and Scandinavians resisted assimilation and used their rights as new electorate to wrestle assaults on their cultures. during this flowing narrative, ladies turn out to be innovative brokers in their personal fiscal pursuits. Dakota girls won autonomy within the use in their allotments, whereas Scandinavian girls staked and "proved up" their very own claims.

Hansen chronicles the intertwined tales of Dakotas and immigrants-women and males, farmers, household servants, and day employees. Their shared struggles display efforts to take care of a language, maintain a tradition, and navigate their advanced ties to a couple of kingdom. The background of the yankee West can't be instructed with no those voices: their lengthy connections, intermittent conflicts, and profound impact over each other defy effortless categorization and supply a brand new viewpoint at the procedures of immigration and land taking.

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