323 Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an airwave media podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Ben Franklin's World is a production of the Omaha |
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| 0:10.4 | Foundation. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 323 of Ben Franklin's World. |
| 0:25.0 | The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how |
| 0:28.2 | the people and events of our early American past |
| 0:31.0 | have shaped the present-day world we live in. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'm your host, Liz Covart, the Treaty of Paris that |
| 0:37.3 | ended the American War for Independence in 1783. |
| 0:40.7 | Saw the United States grow in its territorial holdings. |
| 0:43.8 | Well, it grew at least on paper. |
| 0:46.0 | Within the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Great Britain seated to the United |
| 0:50.0 | States all lands east of the Mississippi river and between the |
| 0:53.0 | southern borders of present-day Canada and Georgia. |
| 0:56.4 | But how would the United States make good on its treaty right |
| 0:59.2 | to settle this land? |
| 1:01.0 | Answering this question, proved to be a bit of a |
| 1:03.2 | quandary for the new United States. |
| 1:05.3 | After all, Great Britain's Proclamation Line of 1763 |
| 1:08.8 | had greatly hampered and hindered settlement west of the |
| 1:11.7 | Appalachian Mountains. |
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