Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States

Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United StatesHow 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. Routinely inadequate, these payments were nonetheless pivotal because federal officials chose not to deliver them as a lump sum.

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and to unravel the history we have been taught

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