TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karamanski,Theodore J.
TI  - Blackbird's song: Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa people 
SN  - 9781609173371
AV  - E99.O6 B534 2012eb
U1  - 977.4004/973360092B 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - East Lansing
PB  - Michigan State University Press
KW  - Blackbird, Andrew J.,
KW  - Ottawa Indians
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Biography
KW  - Indian authors
KW  - History
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Outaouais
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Écrivains des Peuples autochtones
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Forest Youth; 2. The Crisis; 3. A New World; 4. We Now Wish to Become Men; 5. Citizen Blackbird; 6. Doing Good amongst My People; 7. Light and Shadows; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - For much of U.S. history, the story of native people has been written by historians and anthropologists relying on the often biased accounts of European-American observers. Though we have become well acquainted with war chiefs like Pontiac and Crazy Horse, it has been at the expense of better knowing civic-minded intellectuals like Andrew J. Blackbird, who sought in 1887 to give a voice to his people through his landmark book History of the Ottawa and Chippewa People. Blackbird chronicled the numerous ways in which these Great Lakes people fought to retain their land and culture, first with military resistance and later by claiming the tools of citizenship. This stirring account reflects on the lived experience of the Odawa people and the work of one of their greatest advocates
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