The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans

Salisbury, Neal

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“…Almost uniformly, writings on colonial American currencies describe the lack of institutional infrastructure in Euroamerica as the key difference between the American colonial and English economic environments (Nettels ; Priest ; Carruthers and Ariovich ; cf. Miller and Hamell ; Salisbury ). However, the literature does not remark, as it might, on the significance of indigenous presence and the unique dynamics of trade between groups with unshared basic premises about money, trade, land, and the world.…”

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Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

Park¹

2016

Law soc. inq.

126

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In colonial America, land acquired new liquidity when it became liable for debts. Though English property law maintained a firm distinction between land and chattel for centuries, in the American colonies, the boundary between the categories of real and personal property began to disintegrate. There, the novelty of easy foreclosure and consequent easy alienation of land made it possible for colonists to obtain credit, using land as a security. However, scholars have neglected the first instances in which a newly unconstrained practice of mortgage foreclosure appeared—the transactions through which colonists acquired land from indigenous people in the first place. In this article, I explore these early transactions for land, which took place across fundamental differences between colonists’ and native communities’ conceptions of money, land, and exchange itself. I describe how difference and dependence propelled the growth of the early American contact economy to make land into real estate, or the fungible commodity on the speculative market that it remains today.

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Section: Moneymentioning

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Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

Park¹

2016

Law soc. inq.

126

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“…Of the forms in which copper was available, European kettles were by far the most important during early contact (Bradley 1987, p. 131). Native Americans' willingness to exchange abundant goods for copper confounded Europeans' views of market commodity exchange (Martin 1975, p. 113;Salisbury 1996). We see this sentiment in John Smith's (1907, p. 71) observation in 1624 about Virginian Native American communities: "Their manner of trading is for copper, beads, and such like, for which they give such commodities as they have, as skins, foule, fish, flesh and their Country Corne."…”

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“…It is enigmatic because its signature in both the archaeological and historical record is light compared to what came before, the true "prehistoric" period, and what came after, the true "historic" period. It is thus a shadowy period, called sometimes the protohisotoric, yet the events of this time are crucial to understanding the transition from pre-to post-contact times (Ehrhardt 2005, p. 3;Hamell 1986/87;Salisbury 1996;Walthall and Emerson 1992). Identifying the earliest contexts and processes of persistence and change in Native material and social systems is both vitally important and challenging (Ehrhardt 2005, p. 4).…”

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Colonial Encounters, European Kettles, and the Magic of Mimesis in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Indigenous Northeast and Great Lakes

Howey

2011

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Similar to the myth of property rights, historical evidence points to a virtual absence of broad collective involvement of early Native Americans in economic initiatives other than in community-organized trading events and in the enforcement of certain externalities such as overgrazing (Herskovits, 1940;Holder, 1970;Shipek, 1987;Salisbury, 1996;Anderson, 1997a, b;Rubin, 1999). In fact, with the exception of piracy and raidingwhich, for obvious reasons, was more a tribal band initiative-the vast majority of Native American business enterprises were either individual-or family-based, and, in these aspects, they did not differ from the vast majority of their contemporaneous European counterparts.…”

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False Myths and Indigenous Entrepreneurial Strategies

Galbraith

Rodríguez

Stiles

2006

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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This paper discusses the theme of indigenous entrepreneurship by exploring some false assumptions repeated not only in the popular press, but also by many academics and policy makers, related to the purported perspective of Native American populations regarding property rights, entrepreneurial behavior, and the productive use of environmental resources. We argue that these historical distortions and myths have engendered the development of misdirected public policies-in particular, the emphasis on communal land use introduced with the reservation system-that prevent these populations from exploring the full potential of entrepreneurial initiatives to overcome the conditions of poverty, unemployment, and low economic growth.SOMMAIRE. L'article aborde le sujet de l'entrepreneuriat autochtone en étudiant les fausses suppositions que l'on retrouve non seulement dans la presse populaire, mais qui sont aussi tenues par un grand nombre de chercheurs et de décideurs quant au soi-disant point de vue des communautés autochtones au sujet des droits fonciers, de l'entrepreneuriat et de l'utilisation productive des ressources environnementales. Il est de notre opinion que ces déformations historiques et ces mythes ont entraîné la mise en place de politiques publiques erronées, par exemple l'emphase mise sur les terrains communaux introduits avec la création de réserves. Ces politiques empêchent les populations autochtones d'explorer le plein potentiel des initiatives entrepreneuriales afin de mettre fin aux problèmes de pauvreté, de haut taux de chômage et de faible croissance économique dont souffrent les communautés autochtones.

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The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans

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Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

Colonial Encounters, European Kettles, and the Magic of Mimesis in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Indigenous Northeast and Great Lakes

False Myths and Indigenous Entrepreneurial Strategies

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