Our Relations...the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes plays The Murder of Joe White

The Murder of Joe White contextualizes this event within decades of struggle of White s community at Rice Lake to resist removal to the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation

Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian woman

we go to her and without her we wouldn't be here

spirited girl into a “proper” young lady

Our Relations...the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes plays The Murder of Joe WhiteIn the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, mixed bloods were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal government. Larry Nesper focuses on the implementation and long term effects of the mixed blood provision of the 1854 treaty with the Chippewa of Wisconsin. That treaty not only ceded lands and created the Ojibwe Indian