
Three Fires Unity
The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands
Phil Bellfy(Author)
University of Nebraska Press
Published on 1. May 2011
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-8032-1348-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Lake Huron area of the Upper Great Lakes region, an area spreading across vast parts of the United States and Canada, has been inhabited by the Anishnaabeg for millennia. Since their first contact with Europeans around 1600, the Anishnaabeg have interacted with-and struggled against-changing and shifting European empires and the emerging nation-states that have replaced them. Through their cultural strength, diplomatic acumen, and a remarkable knack for adapting to change, the Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands have reemerged as a strong and vital people, fully in charge of their destiny in the twenty-first century. 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 they have been affected by European contact and trade. Three Fires Unity examines how shifting European politics and, later, the imposition of the Canada-United States border running through their homeland, affected them and continue to do so today. In looking at the cultural, social, and political aspects of this borderland contact, Phil Bellfy sheds light on how the Anishnaabeg were able to survive and even thrive over the centuries in this intensely contested region.
Reviews / Votes
"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, SAIL "The book provides an important starting point for the construction of an aboriginal-centered history of the region."-Allan K. McDougall, Journal of Anthropological ResearchMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
10 maps, 6 tables, 1 figure
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-1348-7 (9780803213487)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
10/2019
1st Edition
University of Nebraska Press
€24.49
Available for download

E-Book
05/2011
University of Nebraska Press
€20.99
Available for download
Person
Phil Bellfy (White Earth Chippewa) is a professor emeritus of American Indian studies at Michigan State University. He is the author of Indians and Other Misnomers: A Cross-Reference Dictionary of the People, Persons, and Places of Native North America.
Content
List of Illustrations 000 Preface 000 Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 1. A Historical Accounting of the Anishnaabeg People 000 2. The French Period: The 1600s to 1763 000 3. The British Period: 1763 to 1795 000 4. The United States and the Division of the Anishnaabeg Homeland 000 5. Anishnaabeg Treaty-Making and the Removal Period 000 6. Twenty-First-Century Conditions, and Conclusion 000 Appendix 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000