The Ojibwe Nation
3/24/202617 min
In the face of United States westward expansion in the 19th century, Native people fought to preserve their land and way of life. Today on the show: the story of how one Ojibwe leader tried to keep his people and land together by building a nation within a nation.
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Ramtin Arablouei· Host0:12
[upbeat music] This is America in Pursuit, a limited-run series from Throughline and NPR. I'm Ramtin Arablouei. Each week, we bring you stories about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the US that began 250 years ago. Up until this point in the series, we've been talking about the birth of the United States as a nation and how different groups of people pushed for the expansion of what it meant to be American. But the reality is Native people inhabited the land that we now call the United States long before Europeans set foot on North America. And as the US continued to grow and expand, Native peoples had different experiences and relationships with the strangers that arrived on their shores. Today on the show, NPR reporter Sequoia Carrillo and Throughline producer Anya Steinberg bring us the story of the Ojibwe people and how in the face of US westward expansion, they created a nation to try to preserve their land and way of life. That story after a quick break.
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