Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

A searing account. . . . [Witgen's] incisive and deeply researched study lays bar the mechanisms of this historical land grab. Publishers Weekly

An important analysis of Indigenous resistance to U.S. colonialism in the lands that would become Michigan and Wisconsin during the first half of the nineteenth century. Civil War Book Review

An important work that draws together multiple threads that have all too often remained stubbornly disparate in the field of early American history. Witgen's "political economy of plunder" model achieves something simultaneously noteworthy and quite difficult. . . . Witgen makes the unthinkable imaginable, and even tangible, to his audience. H-Early-America

A critical story of survivance. . . . This book joins a growing body of literature by Indigenous scholars and others working to rightly account for the Indigenous history of North America. Early American Literature