Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America Hidatsa and what he saw as

and what he saw as the absurdity of our current zeitgeist

stories of ghosts

the spirits of ancient warriors

After being separated from his family at age 7

damaging effects of the "Doctrine of Discovery

Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America Hidatsa and what he saw asAgainst 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