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Settler colonialism on water: Brett Rushforth, ‘Waterworld’, Reviews in American History, 47, 4, 2019 pp. 501-513

20Dec19

Excerpt: The histories that produced these treaties and their divergent interpretations are part of a much larger story that scholars often overlook in their narratives of settler colonialism. The familiar emphasis on territorial dispossession has understandably dominated historical interpretations of Native North American history, and the fight for indigenous sovereignty has often been rooted in restoring control over ancestral homelands. But Native people living on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in particular, experienced European colonialism more as an oceanic encounter than as a battle over landed property. Where do their stories fit within broader histories of Euro-American conquest and colonization in North America? 


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