The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership

The Legacy of Shingwaukonse is a groundbreaking book that sheds light on the remarkable story of an Ojibwa chief and his sons in the face of formidable challenges from entrepreneurs, missionaries, and bureaucrats.

This comprehensive study by Janet E.

Chute offers a detailed account of how Shingwaukonse sought to preserve Native cultural values and organizational structures while devising strategies to enable the formation of band governments capable of assuming a degree of proprietorship over resources on Native land.

Through an impressive array of evidence from government, church, manuscript, and oral sources, Chute reconstructs a period of energetic and sometimes effective Aboriginal resistance to pressures visited on the community.

The Legacy of Shingwaukonse is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the historical relationship between Native peoples and newcomers throughout the nineteenth century.