Seeing red : Indigenous land, American expansion, and the political economy of plunder in North America /

Seeing red : Indigenous land, American expansion, and the political economy of plunder in North America /

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 ec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Witgen, Michael J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill ; Williamsburg, Virginia : Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Algonquian Indians > Northwest, Old > Government relations.
Algonquian Indians > Treaties > History > 19th century.
Ojibwa Indians > Northwest, Old.
Ottawa Indians > Northwest, Old.
Potawatomi Indians > Northwest, Old.
Settler colonialism > Economic aspects > Northwest, Old.
Racially mixed people > Northwest, Old > Politics and government.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies.
Northwest, Old > History > 1775-1865.
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.