The assassination of Hole in the Day

Preface: Archives, oral history, and the Ojibwe language

Prologue

The nature of Ojibwe leadership

Becoming chief : the rise of Bagone-giizhig the Elder

Testing his mettle : Bagone-giizhig the Elder in the early treaty period

Pride and power : Bagone-giizhig's inheritance

The art of diplomacy : Bagone-giizhig and the conflict of 1862

The enemy within : assassinating Bagone-giizhig

Epilogue: The leadership vacuum and dispossession

Appendix A: Participants in the assassination of Bagone-giizhig

Appendix B: Principal figures

Appendix C: Important event chronology

Appendix D: More on language : the meaning of Ojibwe and Anishinaabe.