Encounter on the Great Plains : Scandinavian settlers and the dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 /

In 1904, Scandinavian settlers began moving onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry first and second generation immigrants struggled with poverty nearly as severe as that of their Dakota neighbours, often becoming sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homestea...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Hansen, Karen V. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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