323 American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River and between the southern borders of Canada and Georgia. How would the United States take advantage of its new boundaries and incorporate these lands within its governance? Answering this question presented a quandary for the young United States. The lands it sought to claim by right of treaty belonged to Indigenous peoples. Michael Witgen, a Professor of History at Columbia University and a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, joins us to investigate the story of the Anishinaabeg and Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the Anishinaabeg people, with details from his book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/323 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 051: Catherine Cangany, A History of Early Detroit 🎧 Episode 064: Brett Rushforth, Native American Slavery in New France 🎧 Episode 163: The American Revolution in North America 🎧 Episode 223: Susan Sleeper-Smith, A Native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes Region 🎧 Episode 264: Michael Oberg, The Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794 🎧 Episode 286: Native Sovereignty 🎧 Episode 310: Rosalyn LaPier, History of the Blackfeet REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the
0:06.2	Omaha Institute and is sponsored by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. I'm going to
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to episode 323 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:25.1	The podcast dedicated to helping you,
0:27.4	learn more about how the people and events of our early American past
0:31.1	have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:33.2	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:36.3	The Treaty of Paris that ended the American War for Independence in 1783 saw the United States
0:41.7	grow in its territorial holdings.
0:44.0	Well, it grew at least on paper.
0:46.3	Within the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands
0:51.0	east of the Mississippi River and between the southern borders of present-day Canada and Georgia.
0:56.0	But how would the United States make good on its treaty right to settle this land?
1:01.0	Answering this question proved to be a bit of a quandary for the new United States. Land. and hindered settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
1:13.4	So at the time of the American's independence,
1:16.0	the great majority of the United States' population
1:18.7	actually lived just along the eastern seaboard
1:21.2	from southern Maine down through Georgia.
1:24.0	Another complication in settling lands within its territorial boundaries was the fact that the
1:28.2	lands the New United States sought to bring within its orbit of governance were not unsettled lands.
1:34.4	These lands served and still serve as a homelands of indigenous peoples.
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