Native American Religions

“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 3 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)

The following is the final of a three-part series.  The first installation can be found here, the second here.  The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in January, 2019. There are a number of issues here to which our interpretive analysis must be drawn: First of all, we need to note the immense attention […]

Native American Religions

“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 2 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)

The following is the second of a three-part series.  The first installation can be found here.  The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in January, 2019. Trans Allegheny Frontier Enclaves David Morgan was certainly not alone in his disdain for the aboriginal Peoples of this continent, nor, in the final analysis did he […]

Native American Religions

“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe), Part 1

The following is the first of a three-part installment.  The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in January, 2019. “Damn it, he’s an Injun!” The settlers on the upper waters of the Monongahela often went in canoes and flat-boats to Fort Pitt, where they exchanged skins, furs, jerked venison, and other products […]