Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Witgen, Michael John, author.

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

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

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  305.897 WITGEN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.897 WIT    Check Shelf
Description xv, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
Contains appendix: "Summaries of select treaties between the United States and Indigenous nations in the Old Northwest, 1795-1855."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject 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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Ojibwa Indians. (OCoLC)fst01045067
Ottawa Indians. (OCoLC)fst01049020
Potawatomi Indians. (OCoLC)fst01073469
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Territorial expansion. (OCoLC)fst01355135
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
United States -- Old Northwest. (OCoLC)fst01242541
Chronological Term 1775-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body.
Added Title Indigenous land, American expansion, and the political economy of plunder in North America
ISBN 9781469664842 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1469664844 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781469664859 electronic book
-->
Add a Review