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{"title":"Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis by Benjamin J. Pauli (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mhr.2023.a899872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mhr.2023.a899872","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis by Benjamin J. Pauli Michelle Wilde Anderson Benjamin J. Pauli. Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2019. Pp. 432. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Index. Notes. Tables. Cloth: $95.00. \"What made the [Flint water] crisis distinctive, what made it especially egregious,\" writes Benjamin J. Pauli, \"was not just how badly residents were harmed, but how they were harmed.\" (32) Activists stressed—and Pauli compellingly argues—that unsafe water flowed from their taps not just because of technical failures to manage city operations nor because of Flint's overall history of disinvestment and racial segregation. Instead, residents were \"poisoned by policy.\" The decision to suspend local democracy, made in the name of fiscal restraint, enabled a reckless disregard for residents' health and safety. That history \"eroded trust in the political system in ways that were every bit as poisonous as the water.\" (99) From his vantage point both as a professor of social science at Kettering University and as an activist, Pauli's book on the Flint water crisis marks an important historical record of one of the most significant environmental justice battles in US history. With humility and painstaking care, the book records the causes, costs, harms, and mitigation of the city's water problems from 2011 to 2018. Pauli describes his research as \"ethnographic immersion,\" which is reflected in his various roles as a social scientist, a resident and parent in Flint, an activist and volunteer, and a citizen servant on local public commissions. Pauli offers a fine-grained look at the federal, state, local, and private actors who left \"fingerprints\" on the decisions that created and sustained a dangerous water supply, demonstrating a keen (and practical) understanding of the state emergency manager law that put a state appointee in charge of Flint's government, including its water system. Pauli argues that the crisis was not just driven by smaller process failures within government. The suspension of local democracy broke lines of communication and accountability between the people and the state. \"[T]he problem in Flint,\" he writes, \"was not just that government failed in its protective function—'they' didn't keep us safe—but that it failed in its representative function—'they' didn't listen to us and act on our concerns.\" (130) State officials and \"experts,\" along with outside journalists, branded resident concerns about the safety of their tap water as \"hysteria\" or even a \"hoax.\" Activists had to fight to elevate words like \"crisis,\" \"disaster,\" and \"emergency,\" as well as to insist on the scientific accuracy of \"lead poisoning\"—as opposed to the understated term \"lead exposure\"—to describe the effects on children. (35-38) We see in stark relief how activists had to overcome (mostly by ove","PeriodicalId":83184,"journal":{"name":"The Michigan historical review","volume":"881 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135469561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of the 1870 by Theresa L. Weller (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mhr.2023.a899873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mhr.2023.a899873","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of the 1870 by Theresa L. Weller Rebecca J. Mead Theresa L. Weller. The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of the 1870. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2021. Appendix. Bibliography. Images. Notes. Paperback: $32.95. This remarkable little book is significant for many reasons. As the author explored her family history and tribal connections, she discovered a unique [End Page 139] group: a métis band recognized by the US federal government through official treaties and confirmed by an early-twentieth-century legal settlement. Métis people are the mixed-race \"children of the fur trade,\" a term coined by Canadian scholars to describe the offspring of Native women and European fur traders in the Northern borderlands (often mislabeled \"French\" historically). In Canada today, they are more numerous, visible, and actively seeking recognition as a distinct group than in the United States, but there were populations south of the border, clustered originally around fur-trade posts. When the Great Lakes fur trade declined in the early 1800s and moved further west, communities now had to find new ways to survive. This book is not a full narrative or expository study but an annotated family-tribal genealogy that provides a treasure trove of stories and information about one particular métis community—the Mackinac Island Native band (also known as \"The Biddle Band\"). This group was a composite of people, almost all unrelated women, from a variety of tribes and locations, including Wisconsin and Canada, as well as local Ojibwas and Odawas. What might make it unique, as the author claims, is that they were recognized as a distinct group and received annuity payments as a result of the 1836 Treaty of Washington and its updated version, the 1855 Treaty of Detroit—the last of the major Michigan Native treaties (although these \"cousins\" were recognized and included in earlier treaties too). The Detroit treaty payments ended in 1872, but in 1905, the Odawas and Ojibwas sued and won in the US Court of Claims for monies still due to them. A special federal agent, Horace Durant, created a new survey of eligible recipients based on the 1870 annuity rolls (which Native leaders determined as the cutoff point for receiving part of the settlement), a valuable resource still used extensively. Using these two sources, the author identified 74 original band members (66 women and 66 families) and traced each one and their descendants through several subsequent generations. Information about many of the individuals is scarce, but patterns emerge as to how they made a living and supported others. Many women continued as traders, craftspersons, and food producers; some men continued to trap or trade while others took wage work, primarily as fishers. Some stand out for their roles as leaders—particularly Agatha Biddle, who married an American from a wealthy family (or ","PeriodicalId":83184,"journal":{"name":"The Michigan historical review","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135469556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mhr.2023.a899874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mhr.2023.a899874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83184,"journal":{"name":"The Michigan historical review","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135469563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the Publisher","authors":"Larry J. Wagenaar","doi":"10.1353/mhr.2023.a899860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mhr.2023.a899860","url":null,"abstract":"From the Publisher Larry J. Wagenaar My association with The Michigan Historical Review (MHR) goes back thirty years, to when I first joined the Board of Trustees of the Historical Society of Michigan (HSM). Back then, leaders of the organization were struggling to keep the nonprofit state historical society afloat, and there was discussion about whether the Society could afford to continue distributing the MHR to its members. The issue came up again when I was president of the Board from 1996 to 1998. Despite the fiscal concerns—which were very real at the time—we never wavered from supporting Michigan history scholarship at the academic level where the MHR lives. When I became executive director of HSM in 2001, it remained a priority to support the MHR as we worked in the succeeding years to rebuild our organization. Former Clarke Historical Library director Frank Boles was also very helpful during those times, allowing HSM some additional time when the semiannual printing invoices arrived. Those difficult days are long behind us now, as HSM publishes two history magazines—Michigan History and Chronicle—alongside the MHR, operates educational programming of all types, servicing students to senior citizens, is the mothership for hundreds of local historical organizations, hosts three major history conferences annually, and operates several award programs. And we remain committed to the MHR now, as its publisher. If you are contributor or reader of MHR, I would encourage you to consider writing for our other publications that are aimed at an educated lay audience. Michigan History, for example, is read by more than 100,000 people per issue. Many of the topics that are shared for academics in the MHR can be recrafted for a public audience and will ensure that the stories of our state are shared as broadly as possible. For more information on our writing guidelines for HSM Publications visit www.hsmichigan.org/submission-guidelines. [End Page v] Larry J. Wagenaar Executive Director and CEO, Historical Society of Michigan Publisher, HSM Publications Copyright © 2023 Historical Society of Michigan","PeriodicalId":83184,"journal":{"name":"The Michigan historical review","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135469554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research bibliography: a union list of publications from Michigan's mineral springs, mineral wells, and mineral baths.","authors":"L. Barnett","doi":"10.2307/20173680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/20173680","url":null,"abstract":"Although no more than a few dozen mineral wells and springs existed in Michigan at any one time, since their discovery over 125 years ago nearly two hundred firms have operated watering places for the suffering in this state. The publications produced by this industry were collectively quite numerous, but scarcely a hundred or so examples of this genre can be located today. On those rare occasions when materials of this nature can be found in out-of-print book stores or antiquarian dealers'catalogs, it is not uncommon for the asking price to approach $100 per piece. Now that this union list has revealed how scarce and valuable these publication are, persons and institutions possessing such items should take precautions to ensure the security of their holdings.","PeriodicalId":83184,"journal":{"name":"The Michigan historical review","volume":"23 2 1","pages":"169-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/20173680","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69124332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tending their flock: diet, hygiene, and health for 19th century reformatory children.","authors":"D. Thavenet","doi":"10.2307/20173181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/20173181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83184,"journal":{"name":"The Michigan historical review","volume":"15 2 1","pages":"23-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/20173181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69123608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}