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Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Michael John Witgen

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Finalist:Pulitzer Prize -History (2023)
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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
  • Publish Date: Feb 22nd, 2022
  • Pages: 384
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.47in - 6.50in - 1.14in - 1.50lb
  • EAN: 9781469664842
  • Categories: • Native American Studies• Indigenous - General• United States - General

About the Author

Witgen, Michael John: - Michael John Witgen (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) is professor in the Department of History and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.

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Praise for this book

A searing account. . . . [Witgen's] incisive and deeply researched study lays bare the mechanisms of this historical land grab."--Publishers Weekly

An important analysis of Indigenous resistance to U.S. colonialism in the lands that would become Michigan and Wisconsin during the first half of the nineteenth century."--Civil War Book Review

An important work that draws together multiple threads that have all too often remained stubbornly disparate in the field of early American history. Witgen's "political economy of plunder" model achieves something simultaneously noteworthy and quite difficult. . . . Witgen makes the unthinkable imaginable, and even tangible, to his audience."--H-Early-America

A critical story of survivance. . . . This book joins a growing body of literature by Indigenous scholars and others working to rightly account for the Indigenous history of North America."--Early American Literature

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UNC Press
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The University of North Carolina Press publishes distinguished scholarship and superb general interest books. Founded in 1922.

.@PulitzerPrizes History finalist “Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America” by Michael John Witgen @MJWitgen . . . tells the story of the Anishinaabeg, who resisted colonial advances on their land (in present-day… https://t.co/v6XnZ7B1FO

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Congratulations to Professor @MJWitgen, 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History for his book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America @OIEAHC @UNC_Press @CUHistoryDept @PulitzerPrizes https://t.co/UaxnHQz40z

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