The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889 1920 Gros Ventre and Scott Manning Stevens Dillon s engaging introduction and Scott Manning Stevens Plains Indian ledger art grew out of the Native tradition of recording and chronicling through art important exploits by warriors and chiefs An interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social and political relations among the Anishinaabeg and reveals how cultural forces outside of the reservation profoundly affected their lives