Ramtin Arablui

This is America in Pursuit, a limited run series from ThruLine and NPR.

I'm Ramtin Adablui.

Each week, we bring you stories about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the U.S.

that began 250 years ago.

Up until this point in the series, we've been talking about the birth of the United States as a nation and how different groups of people pushed for the expansion of what it meant to be American.

But the reality is, Native people inhabited the land that we now call the United States long before Europeans set foot on North America.

And as the U.S.

continued to grow and expand, Native peoples had different experiences and relationships with the strangers that arrived on their shores.

Today on the show, NPR reporter Sequoia Carrillo and ThruLine producer Anya Steinberg bring us the story of the Ojibwe people and how in the face of U.S.

westward expansion, they created a nation to try to preserve their land and way of life.

That story after a quick break.

That's it for this week's episode of America in Pursuit.

If you want to hear more about the lasting impact allotment had on different Ojibwe bands, make sure to check out the full-length episode called A Tale of Two Tribal Nations.

And join us next week, where we continue the story of U.S.

expansion beyond the continental U.S.

That's next week.

Don't miss it.

This episode was produced by Kiana Morata and edited by Christina Kim, with help from the Thuline production team.

Music, as always, by me, Ramtin Arablui, and my band, Drop Electric.

Special thanks to Julie Kane, Irina Gucci, Beth Donovan, Casey Minor, and Lindsay McKenna.