Description:
A deeply researched, finely observed work by a respected historian, Making Relatives of Them offers a nuanced perspective on the social and political worlds of the Great Lakes Native peoples, and a new understanding of those worlds in relation to those of the European colonizers and their descendants.
Brief description:
Rebecca Kugel is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825-1898 and coeditor of Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing.
Review Quotes: "Making Relatives of Them is a wonderful contribution, particularly so for centering Native kinship practices and politics."--James Joseph Buss, author of Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes.