Evading the Map: The Power of Cartographic Ignorance at the White Earth and Red Lake Ojibwe Reservations
By Heidi Katter, Yale University '20 Edited by Oona Holahan and Louie Lu Introduction In July 1889, the United States government sent a commission to northwestern Minnesota to counsel with the Ojibwe of the White Earth and Red Lake Reservations. The object of these visits was straightforward: to negotiate...