Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege

Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler SiegeMore than two dozen stories of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands. Land privatization has been a longstanding and ongoing settler colonial process separating Indigenous peoples from their traditional homelands, with devastating consequences. Allotment Stories delves into this conflict, creating a complex conversation out of narratives of Indigenous communities resisting allotment and other dispossessive land

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carried out through the seasons of the year and across the seasons of life

But when Chickadee asks Grandpa what he would like them to bring back from the city

and ways of being Indigenous

we are all one family

and other Native nations offer additional insight on the historic and cultural significance of these sites

and spirits—and the daily work of healing

and each tribe incorporated special colors

and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape

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