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Article: David R.M. Beck. The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854.(Book review)
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- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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David R. M. Beck. The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 290 pp. $24.95.
It is difficult to find materials pertaining to chronicles of Indian tribes that provide a decent balance between the usual way of presenting history and taking into account, for want of a better way of saying it, the tribal view of history. David Beck's history of the Menominees from 1854 to current times is a remarkable and important addition to the genre. I found it constructive to locate his earlier book, Siege & Survival: A History of the Menominee from 1634 to 1856, which picks up in a little ...