We're celebrating Native American Heritage Month by highlighting books written by Native American authors. The following is an excerpt from Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History. Seeing Red is published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and UNC Press. The State of Nature Jefferson’s vision for the Republic and the continent was linked to a particular understanding of the relationship between Native peoples...