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Vested Interests : Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connolly, Emilie.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital From the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory.Amid better-known "Indian wars," the federal government quietly built an empire by treaty, offering payments to Native peoples for their land.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Strategies of Succession
- Chapter 2. Inheriting the Earth
- Chapter 3. Banking on Removal
- Chapter 4. Money Flows
- Chapter 5. American Insecurities
- Chapter 6. Unsettled Claims
- Chapter 7. The Fall and Rise of Fiduciary Colonialism
- Epilogue: The Past and Future of Trusteeship
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-24013-2
- OCLC:
- 1535983849
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