Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States Mohican Wesley Ballinger

Wesley Ballinger

the author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident

Peart-Smith collaborates with experienced graphic novel editor Paul Buhle to provide an accessible introduction to a complex history that will attract new generations of readers of all ages

As young women

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Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States Mohican Wesley BallingerHow 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.