The assassination of Hole in the Day

Summary: Examines the life of Hole in the Day the Younger, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe, focusing on events that led to his assassination in 1868 by a group of Ojibwe men while he was on his way from Minnesota to Washington, D.C., to protest the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to the White Earth Reservation.

Record details

ISBN: 9780873518437 (softcover)
Physical Description: print
xix, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: St. Paul, MN : Borealis Books, [2011]
Copyright: ©2011

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface: Archives, oral history, and the Ojibwe language -- Prologue -- The nature of Ojibwe leadership -- Becoming Chief : the rise of Bagone-giizhig the Elder -- Testing his mettle : Bagone-giizhig the Elder in the early treaty period -- Pride and power : Bagone-giizhig's inheritance -- The art of diplomacy : Bagone-giizhig and the conflict of 1862 -- The enemy within : assassinating Bagone-giizhig -- Epilogue: The leadership vacuum and dispossession -- Appendix A: Participants in the assassination of Bagone-giizhig -- Appendix B: Principal figures -- Appendix C: Important event chronology -- Appendix D: More on language : the meaning of Ojibwe and Anishinaabe.