Description
Book SynopsisWinner 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 their history has been shaped and influenced by European contact and trade.
Trade Review“[
Three Fires Unity] provides an important starting point for the construction of an aboriginal-centered history of the region.”—Allan K. McDougall,
Journal of Anthropological Research “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,
Studies in American Indian LiteraturesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Historical Accounting of the Anishnaabeg People
2. The French Period: The 1600s to 1763
3. The British Period: 1763 to 1795
4. The United States and the Division of the Anishnaabeg Homeland
5. Anishnaabeg Treaty-Making and the Removal Period
6. Twenty-First-Century Conditions, and Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
