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Article: David R. M. Beck. Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. 280. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Tables. Photographs. Timeline. Cloth, $49.95.
Like many other scholars of Native-American history, David R. M. Beck attempts to tell an all-too- familiar story of gradual dispossession in a new way. In this study, Beck looks at the Menominee, one of the few Native-American groups of the Old Northwest that managed to retain substantial parts of its original homeland. He discusses the group's interaction with European colonial powers, with American settlers and officials, and with neighboring native groups--all of whom encroached on Menominee lands, desired Menominee resources, and ...