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 AmericaAgainst 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

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and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have transformed the landscape of Native American life

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Here follows the story of a most extraordinary year in the life of an Ojibwe family and of a girl named "Omakayas

Collaboration is at the heart of this work and informs how the editors and community came together to honor the boundless relations of Coast Salish people and their territories

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they forge a deeper kinship with both the earth and the generations that came before

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have never before been assembled in one book