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03539aam a22004458i 4500 001 3C72B9C2475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 170327s2017 mnu s000 0deng 010 $a 2016059305 020 $a 1517901324 020 $a 9781517901325 035 $a (OCoLC)962232285 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ie--- $a e-ie--- 050 00 $a E78.M7 $b M87 2017 082 00 $a 323.1197/0776 $2 23 084 $a SOC021000 $a HIS036090 $a SOC021000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Murphy, Nora, $e author. 245 10 $a White birch, red hawthorn : $b a memoir / $c Nora Murphy. 263 $a 1704 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c 2017. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a ""This is conquered land." The Dakota woman's words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors' homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphy's search for the deeper connections between this contested land and the communities who call it home. In twelve essays, each dedicated to a tree significant to Minnesota, Murphy tells the story of the grove that, long before the Irish arrived, was home to three Native tribes: the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk. She notes devastating strategies employed by the U.S. government to wrest the land from the tribes, but also revisits iconic American tales that subtly continue to promote this displacement--the Thanksgiving story, the Paul Bunyan myth, and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. Murphy travels to Ireland to search out another narrative long hidden--that of her great-great-grandmother's transformative journey from North Tipperary to The Maples. In retrieving these stories, White Birch, Red Hawthorn uncovers lingering wounds of the past--and the possibility that, through connection to this suffering, healing can follow. The next step is simple, Murphy tells us: listen"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Stranded -- Old Stories -- The Cedars -- The Crab Apple -- The Pines -- American Chestnut -- The Elm -- Conquest in the Maples -- The Maples -- Wild Rice -- White Birch -- Potato -- Coming Home -- Red Hawthorn -- The Chokecherry -- The Crab Apple -- Acknowledgments -- Resources and Further Reading. 600 10 $a Murphy, Nora $x Family. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x Land tenure $z Minnesota. 650 0 $a Eviction $z Minnesota. 650 0 $a Eviction $z Ireland. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Cultural Heritage. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) $x Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x Native American Studies. $x Native American Studies. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: $a Murphy, Nora. $t White birch, red hawthorn. $d Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017 $z 9781452954202 $w (DLC) 2017015738 941 $a 3 952 $l TBPD706 $d 20240621012741.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20200901010607.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802024102.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3C72B9C2475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search