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Title The assassination of Hole in the Day / Anton Treuer.
Author Treuer, Anton.
Publication Info. St. Paul, MN : Borealis Books, c2011.
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Description xix, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface: Archives, oral history, and the Ojibwe language -- Prologue -- The nature of Ojibwe leadership -- Becoming chief : the rise of Bagone-giizhig the Elder -- Testing his mettle : Bagone-giizhig the Elder in the early treaty period -- Pride and power : Bagone-giizhig's inheritance -- The art of diplomacy : Bagone-giizhig and the conflict of 1862 -- The enemy within : assassinating Bagone-giizhig -- Epilogue: The leadership vacuum and dispossession -- Appendix A: Participants in the assassination of Bagone-giizhig -- Appendix B: Principal figures -- Appendix C: Important event chronology -- Appendix D: More on language : the meaning of Ojibwe and Anishinaabe.
Subject Hole-in-the-Day, Chief, 1828-1868 -- Assassination.
Ojibwa Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Ojibwa Indians -- History -- 19th century.
Ojibwa Indians -- Government relations.
Ojibwa Indians -- Treaties.
Indian leadership -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century.
Minnesota -- History -- 19th century.
Minnesota -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Ojibwa language.
Oral history.
ISBN 9780873517799 (cloth : alk. paper) : $25.95
0873517792 (cloth : alk. paper)