Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States Mohican the author of the National

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

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Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States Mohican the author of the NationalHow 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.