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• ISBN: 9780252033308 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0252033302 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780252075377 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0252075374 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

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The Illinois Indians in the confluence region: adaptation in a changing world / Alan G. Shackelford -- "Their women quite industrious miners": Native American lead mining in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1788-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "The hinge on which all affairs of the Sauk and Fox Indians turn": Keokuk and the United States government / Thomas Burnell Colbert -- The Ohio Shawnees' struggle against removal, 1814-30 / Stephen Warren -- Jean Baptiste Richardville: Miami métis / Bradley J. Birzer -- Resistance to removal: the "white Indian," Frances Slocum / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- Michigan murder mysteries: death and rumor in the age of Indian removal / Gregory Evans Dowd -- Reworking ethnicity: gender, work roles, and contending redefinitions of the Great Lakes métis, 1820-42 / Rebecca Kugel -- A new seasonal round: government boarding schools, federal work programs, and Ojibwe family life during the Great Depression / Brenda J. Child -- Indian work and Indian neighborhoods: adjusting to life in Chicago during the 1950s / James B. LaGrand -- Blackjack and lumberjack: economic development and cultural identity in Menominee country / Brian Hosmer -- White Earth women and social welfare / Melissa L. Meyer.

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Indians of North America > Middle West > History.
Indians of North America > Middle West > Government relations.
Indians of North America > Middle West > Social life and customs.