Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234901 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 21-04
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors underpinning US economic development success. This view relies on the "Pristine Myth" of an empty undeveloped land. But the abundant land of North America was already made productive and was the recognized territory of sovereign Indigenous Nations. We demonstrate that the development of strong property rights for European/American settlers was mirrored by the attenuation and increasing disregard of Indigenous property rights and that the dearth of discussion of the dispossession of Indigenous nations results in a misunderstanding of some of the core themes of US economic history.
Subjects: 
indigenous peoples
development of the American economy
Institutions
JEL: 
N40
N41
N50
N51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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