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Seeing Red

Michael John Witgen

2022

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press,Published by Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,University of North Carolina Press,Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,Omohundro Institute
• Subject: 1775–1865 / 19th century / Algonquian Indians / Algonquian Indians -- Northwest, Old -- Government relations / Algonquian Indians -- Treaties -- History -- 19th century / American Indian Studies / American Studies / Economic aspects / Government relations / History / History -- United States -- General / HISTORY / United States / General bisacsh / Multiracial people -- Northwest, Old -- Politics and government / Northwest, Old / Northwest, Old -- History -- 1775-1865 / Ojibwa Indians / Ojibwa Indians -- Northwest, Old / Ottawa Indians / Ottawa Indians -- Northwest, Old / Politics and government / Potawatomi Indians / Potawatomi Indians -- Northwest, Old / Race relations / Racially mixed people / Racially mixed people -- Northwest, Old -- Politics and government / Settler colonialism / Settler colonialism -- Economic aspects -- Northwest, Old / Social science -- Ethnic Studies -- American -- Native American Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies bisacsh / Territorial expansion / Treaties / United States / United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century / United States -- Territorial expansion
• ISBN: 1469664844, 9781469664842