Theodore Karamanski

Theodore Karamanski is Professor and Public History Graduate Director, Loyola University. He has published numerous books and is a consultant to the National Park Service on the origins and deve...

Blackbird’s Song: Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa People

Theodore Karamanski

For much of U.S. history, the story of native people has been written by historians and anthropologists relying on the often biased accounts of European-American observers. Though we have become well acquainted with war chiefs like Pontiac and Crazy Horse, it has been at the expense of better knowing civic minded intellectuals like Andrew J. Blackbird, who sought in 1887 to give a voice to his people through his landmark book History of the Ottawa and Chippewa People. Blackbird chronicled the numerous ways in which these Great Lakes people fought to retain their land and culture, first with military resistance and later by claiming the tools of citizenship. This stirring account reflects on the lived experience of the Odawa people and the work of one of their greatest advocates.

Notes, References, index, B&W photographs World rights 313 pp., 6.00" x 9.00", September 2012 Cloth, $39.95, 1-61186-050-4 978-1-61186-050-4