American pentimento the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches
- Author/Creator:
- Seed, Patricia
- Publication/Creation:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- American pentimento the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches / Patricia Seed
- Series Titles:
- Public worlds ; v. 7
Public worlds ; v. 7.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Indigenous peoples of North America--Land tenure
Indians--Colonization
Indians--Civil rights
Land tenure--Government policy--America--History
Right of property--America--History
Europe--Colonies--America--Administration
America--Colonization
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Contents; List of Maps; Preface; American Pentimento: An Introduction; 1 Owning Land by Labor, Money, and Treaty; 2 Imagining a Waste Land; or, Why Indians Vanish; 3 Gendering Native Americans: Hunters as Anglo-America's Partial Fiction; 4 Ownership of Mineral Riches and the Spanish Need for Labor; 5 Tribute and Social Humiliation: The Cost of Preserving Native Farmlands; 6 Cannibals: Iberia's Partial Truth; 7 Sustaining Political Identities: The Moral Boundary between Natives and Colonizers; 8 Indians in Portuguese America; 9 Fast Forward: The Impact of Independence on Colonial Structures
10 Continuities: Colonial Language and Images TodayConclusion. No Perfect World: Contemporary Aboriginal Communities' Human and Resource Rights; Appendix: On the Names of Some North American Aboriginal Peoples; Notes; Index - Summary:
- An illuminating examination of colonization's ongoing cultural legacy. Patricia Seed examines how European countries, primarily England, Spain, and Portugal, differed in their colonization of the Americas, with the English appropriating land, while the Spanish and Portuguese attempted to eliminate ""barbarous"" religious behavior and used indigenous labor to take mineral resources. Seed also demonstrates how these antiquated cultural and legal vocabularies are embedded in our languages, popular cultures, and legal systems, and how they are responsible for current representations and treatment
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936712725402486
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9261-0
- OCLC Number:
- 476095041
191930398 - Other Identifiers:
- hdl: 2027/heb06214
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