But once America gained its independence

in Indian and

Locally sourced

we are jarred into wondering how we make our own meanings when the present is so immediately confronted by the past (or vice versa)

with more than one hundred tales from fifty-five tribes

Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America Seneca But once America gained itsAgainst 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