Three Fires Unity

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Three Fires Unity

The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands

Phil Bellfy

North American Indian Prose Award Series

248 pages
10 maps, 6 tables, 1 figure

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May 2011

978-0-8032-1348-7

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October 2019

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About the Book

The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have interacted with—and struggled against—changing and shifting European empires and the emerging nation-states that have replaced them. Through their cultural strength, diplomatic acumen, and a remarkable knack for adapting to change, the Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands have reemerged as a strong and vital people, fully in charge of their destiny in the twenty-first century.
 
Winner of the North American Indian Prose Award, this first comprehensive cross-border history of the Anishnaabeg provides an engaging account of four hundred years of their life in the Lake Huron area, showing how they have been affected by European contact and trade. Three Fires Unity examines how shifting European politics and, later, the imposition of the Canada–United States border running through their homeland, affected them and continue to do so today. In looking at the cultural, social, and political aspects of this borderland contact, Phil Bellfy sheds light on how the Anishnaabeg were able to survive and even thrive over the centuries in this intensely contested region.

Author Bio

Phil Bellfy (White Earth Chippewa) is a professor emeritus of American Indian studies at Michigan State University. He is the author of Indians and Other Misnomers: A Cross-Reference Dictionary of the People, Persons, and Places of Native North America.

Praise

"Culling data from an array of important Canadian and American primary sources, Bellfy has indeed uncovered a surprising amount of cross-border political activity."—Rebecca Kugel, SAIL

"The book provides an important starting point for the construction of an aboriginal-centered history of the region."—Allan K. McDougall, Journal of Anthropological Research

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations   000

Preface     000

Acknowledgments   000

Introduction      000

1. A Historical Accounting of the Anishnaabeg People  000

2. The French Period: The 1600s to 1763   000

3. The British Period: 1763 to 1795 000

4. The United States and the Division of the Anishnaabeg Homeland 000

5. Anishnaabeg Treaty-Making and the Removal Period   000

6. Twenty-First-Century Conditions, and Conclusion    000

Appendix    000

Notes 000

Bibliography      000

Index 000

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