American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of RichesU of Minnesota Press - 299 pages "The modern regulations and pervading attitudes that control native rights in the Americas may appear unrelated to the European colonial rule, but traces of the colonizers' cultural, religious, and economic agendas remain. Patricia Seed likens this situation to a pentimento - a painting in which traces of older compositions become visible over time -and shows how the exploitation begun centuries ago continues today. Seed examines how the goals of European colonialist in the Americas. The English appropriated land, while the Spanish and Portuguese attempted to eliminate "barbarous" religious behavior and used indigenous labor to take mineral resources. Ultimately, each approach denied native people distinct aspects of their heritage. Seed argues that their differing effects persist, with natives in former English colonies fighting for land rights, while those in former Spanish and Portuguese colonies fight for human dignity." -- Book jacket. |
Contents
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1 Owning Land by Labor Money and Treaty | 12 |
2 Imagining a Waste Land or Why Indians Vanish | 29 |
Hunters as AngloAmericas Partial Fiction | 45 |
4 Ownership of Mineral Riches and the Spanish Need for Labor | 57 |
The Cost of Preserving Native Farmlands | 72 |
Iberias Partial Truth | 91 |
The Moral Boundary between Natives and Colonizers | 113 |
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American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches Patricia Seed Limited preview - 2001 |
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