The Murder of Joe White: Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism in Wisconsin
Erik M. Redix, "The Murder of Joe White: Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism in Wisconsin "
English | ISBN: 1611861454 | 2014 | 294 pages | PDF | 1444 KB
English | ISBN: 1611861454 | 2014 | 294 pages | PDF | 1444 KB
In 1894 Wisconsin game wardens Horace Martin and Josiah Hicks were dispatched to arrest Joe White, an Ojibwe ogimaa (chief), for hunting deer out of season and off-reservation. Martin and Hicks found White and made an effort to arrest him. When White showed reluctance to go with the wardens, they started beating him; he attempted to flee, and the wardens shot him in the back, fatally wounding him. Both Martin and Hicks were charged with manslaughter in local county court, and they were tried by an all-white jury. A gripping historical study, 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, created in 1854 at the Treaty of La Pointe. While many studies portray American colonialism as defined by federal policy,
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