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

Author/Creator:

Witgen, Michael John, author

Publication/Creation:

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

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

Variant Titles:

Indigenous land, American expansion, and the political economy of plunder in North America

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Additional Author/Creators:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body

Subjects/Genre

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
Northwest, Old--History--1775-1865
United States--Territorial expansion
United States--Race relations--History--19th century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Prologue: The Indian Liberating Army: Re-imagining Native identity in Colonial North America -- Introduction: Indian country and the origins 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 Indigenous Nations in the Old Northwest, 1795-1855.

Summary:

"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"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xv, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

General Note:

"... I [author Michael John Witgen] use the term Anishinaabeg for the Great Lakes people also known as the Odawaag, Ojibweg, and Boodewaadamiig even though these same people most often are presented in historical sources as Ottawas, Chippewas, and Potawatomi and are written about generically as Algonquian"--Author's Note on terminology.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937416899402486

ISBN:

9781469664842
1469664844
9781469677774
1469677776

OCLC Number:

1267403444

Barcode:

050000104088
010003520518