Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Seed, Patricia, author.

Title American pentimento : the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches / Patricia Seed
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) : map
Series Public worlds ; v. 7
Public worlds ; v. 7.
Contents List of Maps; Preface; American Pentimento: An Introduction; 1 Owning Land by Labor, Money, and Treaty; 2 Imagining a Waste Land; or, Why Indians Vanish; 3 Gendering Native Americans: Hunters as Anglo-America's Partial Fiction; 4 Ownership of Mineral Riches and the Spanish Need for Labor; 5 Tribute and Social Humiliation: The Cost of Preserving Native Farmlands; 6 Cannibals: Iberia's Partial Truth; 7 Sustaining Political Identities: The Moral Boundary between Natives and Colonizers; 8 Indians in Portuguese America; 9 Fast Forward: The Impact of Independence on Colonial Structures
Summary An illuminating examination of colonizations ongoing cultural legacy. Patricia Seed examines how European countries, primarily England, Spain, and Portugal, differed in their colonization of the Americas, with the English appropriating land, while the Spanish and Portuguese attempted to eliminate "barbarous" religious behavior and used indigenous labor to take mineral resources. Seed also demonstrates how these antiquated cultural and legal vocabularies are embedded in our languages, popular cultures, and legal systems, and how they are responsible for current representations and treatment of Native Americans
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Indians of North America -- Land tenure.
Indians -- Colonization
Indians -- Civil rights
Land tenure -- Government policy -- America -- History
Right of property -- America -- History
Indians -- Land tenure.
Indian land transfers.
HISTORY -- Native American.
Indians -- Land tenure.
Indian land transfers.
Colonization
Indians -- Civil rights
Indians of North America -- Land tenure
Land tenure -- Government policy
Colonies -- Administration.
Right of property
Indianen.
Inheemse volken.
Kolonialisme.
Americas - General.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
SUBJECT Europe -- Colonies -- America -- Administration
America -- Colonization
Subject America
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001001828
ISBN 9780816692613
0816692610