Three Fires Unity: The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands (North American Indian Prose Award) - Hardcover

Bellfy, Phil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803213484 ISBN 13: 9780803213487

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803213484
• ISBN 13: 9780803213487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248