Michigan's Company K : Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War Ojibwa Our Whole Gwich’in Way of

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Michigan's Company K : Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War Ojibwa Our Whole Gwich’in Way ofAs much as the Civil War was a battle over the survival of the United States, for the men of Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, it was also one battle in a longer struggle for the survival of Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the AnishinaabegOjibwe, Odawa, and Boodewaadamii peoples. The men who served in what was often called the Indian Company chose to enlist in the Union army to contribute to their peoples ongoing struggle with the state