1805

Choctaw and Chickasaw land cessions amid trading debts

Southeastern United States

Dunbar-Ortiz describes trading debt as a deliberate instrument for extracting land. These cessions joined commercial dependency to the expansion of settler plantation economies.

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Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 6

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