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Loading... Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)by Michael John Witgen
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A tremendously researched and needed history of the systematic takeover of Native lands in the Northwest Territories during the late 1700's and early 1800's. The book focuses on Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin showing a variety of forces including bad treaties and how tribes were strong armed into signing them. There is much in the book about mixed race "half breeds" and the key role they played in these lands. To a lesser extent Witgen shows the differences in how Natives were treated in the South and the role slavery played in all this. A great study. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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"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 political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as Michael Witgen demonstrates, the credit for Native persistence rested with the Anishinaabeg themselves. Outnumbering white settlers well into the nineteenth century, they leveraged their political savvy to advance a dual citizenship that enabled mixed-race tribal members to lay claim to a place in U.S. civil society. Telling the stories of mixed-race traders and missionaries, tribal leaders and territorial governors, Witgen challenges our assumptions about the inevitability of U.S. expansion. Deeply researched and passionately written, Seeing Red will command attention from readers who are invested in the enduring issues of equality, equity, and national belonging at its core"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.800973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism General Biography And History North America United StatesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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