Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal buffalo and Minnesota

and Minnesota

A fascinating study for students of Indigenous and linguistic disciplines

Erdrich author of Original Local: Indigenous Foods

Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space

Her books include: When Beaver Was Very Great

Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal buffalo and MinnesotaThe history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the territories north of the Ohio River. But Indian removal in the Old Northwest was much more complicatedinvolving many Indian peoples and more than just one policy,