Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country PUB198803 ISBN13: 9781944255053

ISBN13: 9781944255053

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Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country PUB198803 ISBN13: 9781944255053The debate over the meaning of marriage in the United States and specifically in Minnesota is not a recent development. From 1820 to 1845, when the first significant numbers of Americans arrived in the region now called Minnesota, they carried the belief that good government and an orderly household went hand in hand. The territorial, state, and federal governments of the United States were built upon a particular vision of civic responsibility: that