This paper offers a critical reflection on the appropriateness of ‘settler colonialism’ as an analytic category for understanding the political dynamics of early America. It argues that the paradigm’s focus on the elimination of the native obscures the resilience of Indian power, and the mechanisms by which that power was exercised and defended. The paper positions settler colonialism in recent treatments of the history of colonial political thought, and then presents diplomacy as a site of both sovereign formation and negotiation that enhanced the power of colonies as much as it preserved the power of Indian confederations. The final section of the paper suggests that the ‘interior’ sovereignty of Native Americans continued to shape the powers of the new republican order of states.

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超越定居者殖民主义

本文对“定居者殖民主义”作为理解早期美国政治动态的分析类别是否恰当进行了批判性反思。它认为，范式对消灭土著人的关注掩盖了印度权力的弹性，以及行使和捍卫这种权力的机制。这篇论文将殖民者殖民主义置于殖民政治思想史的最新处理中，然后将外交视为主权形成和谈判的场所，既增强了殖民地的权力，又保护了印度邦联的权力。该论文的最后一部分表明，美洲原住民的“内部”主权继续影响着新的共和国家秩序的权力。