Our Relations...the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes plays for medicine

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Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian woman

" —Heid Erdrich

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Our Relations...the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes plays for medicineIn the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, mixed bloods were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal government. Larry Nesper focuses on the implementation and long term effects of the mixed blood provision of the 1854 treaty with the Chippewa of Wisconsin. That treaty not only ceded lands and created the Ojibwe Indian