Martin Case

The Relentless Business of Treaties (eBook, ePUB)

How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which U.S. society is based. U.S. signers represented the relentless interests that drove treaty making: corporate and individual profit, political ambition, and assimilationist assumptions of cultural superiority. The lives of these men illustrate the assumptions inherent in the property system-and the dynamics by which it spread across the continent. In this book, for the first time, Case provides a comprehensive study of the treaty signers, exposing their business ties and multigenerational interrelationships through birth and marriage. Taking Minnesota as a case study, he describes the groups that shaped U.S. treaty making to further their own interests: interpreters, traders, land speculators, bureaucrats, officeholders, missionaries, and mining, timber, and transportation companies. Odds are, the deed to the land under your home rests on this system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781681340913
• Artikelnr.: 52505157

Autorenporträt

MEA Digital artin Case, freelance researcher and writer, was a key participant in the development of Why Treaties Matter, a collaboration of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, the Minnesota Humanities Center, and the Smithsonian Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Property
Chapter 1 1783-1800: Changing Definition of Territory
Chapter 2 Land Speculation
Chapter 3 1803-1813: Nationhood
Chapter 4 Trade
Chapter 5 1814-1825: Treaty Machines
Chapter 6 Extraction and Transportation
Chapter 7 1826-1838: Boundaries
Chapter 8 Kinship and Race
Chapter 9 1839-1849:
Chapter 10 Officers and Officeholders
Chapter 11 1849-1858: Minnesota Territory
Chapter 12 Mythmakers