Improving on Nature
The Legend Lake Development, Menominee Resistance, and the Ecological Dynamics of Settler Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4039701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Dockry, Michael J Dockry (0000-0002-0395-0525), Kyle Powys Whyte (0000-0003-2689-691X), Kyle Whyte |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-120 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aiq.2021.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W3142042351 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In 1968 a large-scale recreational vacation property development, Legend Lake, was carved out of the recently terminated Menominee reservation to create a tax base for Wisconsin’s newly formed Menominee County. Menominee peoples’ resistance to the Legend Lake project and land sales expressed multiple concerns about settler colonialism and the process of terraforming and ecological change, land dispossession, cultural erasure, and implications for the future. The Menominee people came together to respond to this twentieth-century manifestation of the ecological dynamics of settler colonialism by asserting their tribal identity, culture, and relationships to their land. In this paper, we argue that the ecological changes created by the Legend Lake project was one of the major catalysts for Menominee resistance to settler colonialism that ultimately led to the restoration of the Menominee tribe
Archaeology · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · Legend · Political science · Recreation · Resistance (ecology · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Ecology · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |