Karen V Hansen: 1 book
Encounter on the Great Plains
Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian...
