Michigan's Company K : Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War Ojibwa from the cloudlike softness of

from the cloudlike softness of the pouch to the glistening sound of Anaana’s laughter

Tommy must come to terms with his childhood problems and find a way to heal before he hurts himself and those he loves

Manuel succeeded in having the struggle for Aboriginal title and treaty rights injected into international financial institutions

anthropological studies of the Mi'kmaq

” —CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH

Michigan's Company K : Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War Ojibwa from the cloudlike softness ofAs much as the Civil War was a battle over the survival of the United States, for the men of Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, it was also one battle in a longer struggle for the survival of Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the AnishinaabegOjibwe, Odawa, and Boodewaadamii peoples. The men who served in what was often called the Indian Company chose to enlist in the Union army to contribute to their peoples ongoing struggle with the state