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Focusing on case studies from six Native nations from across the United States, David R. M. Beck details how the U.S. government coerced American Indian nations to accept termination of their political relationship with the United States by threatening to withhold money that belonged to the tribes.

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David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of several books, including The Struggle for Self Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005) and is the coauthor with Rosalyn LaPier of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934 (Nebraska, 2015).

The Menominee Indians, or "wild rice people" as their name means, have lived for thousands of years in the region that is now called Wisconsin, and are the oldest Native American community that still lives there. This title examines the events from the Menominees' perspective, showing how many individuals and leaders, worked diligently to survive.

David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634¿1856 (Nebraska 2002), which won the Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit.

David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634¿1856 (Nebraska 2002) and The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854 (Nebraska 2005), both of which won the Wisconsin Historical Society book award.