A Nation within a Nation: Voices of the Oneidas in Wisconsin

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The Oneidas of Wisconsin tell their very own story on this richly diverse, authoritative latest history. A Nation within a Nation gathers first-person accounts, biographical essays, and scholars’ investigations in a sweeping and provocative consideration of the period of 1900-1969.
 
In the wake of removal from their native New York, the Oneida people settled near what is now Green Bay, on 65,000 acres of repeatedly held land. But in 1887, the Dawes Act lead the way for a devastating break-up of the reservation, and within an entire life the Oneidas saw their land holdings plummet to not up to 200 acres. All through struggles with poverty, oppression, and government interference and assimilationism, Wisconsin Oneidas remained connected as a community and true to their Iroquois roots. In addition they refused to relinquish their dream of reclaiming their land, and in contemporary years have not only stopped the land-loss, but have begun to reverse it.

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