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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 their history has been shaped and influenced by European contact and trade.

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“[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 Literatures

Table of Contents

List 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

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      Publisher University of Nebraska Press
      Published 1 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9781496216618
      978-1496216618
      ISBN-10 149621661X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 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 Literatures

      Table of Contents

      List 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

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