Seeing red : Indigenous land, American expansion, and the political economy of plunder in North America / Michael John Witgen.
"Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the polit...
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The Indian Liberating Army: Re-imagining Native identity in Colonial North America
- Introduction: Indian country and the irgins of the United States
- A nation of settlers
- Indigenous homelands and American homesteads
- The civilizing mission, women's labor, and the mixed-race families of the Old Northwest
- Justice weighed in two scales
- Indigenous land and black lives: the politics of exclusion and privilege in the Old Northwest
- Conclusion: Chief Buffalo goes to Washington
- Epilogue: The more things change, the more they stay the same: the legacy of the political economy of plunder
- Appendix: Summaries of select treaties between the United States and Indgenous Nations in the Old Northwest, 1795-1855.