The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property

The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. PropertyThe story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U. S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which U. S. society

Shoshone in the Great Basin

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Then she gives a complete list of the plants with their botanical names

Takoza (granddaughter)

supplemented with a chronology of events

We need her example more than ever in this challenging time

Originally published in 1990

bounded by oppression and colonial violence

observing and living in relationship with the natural world in the place they call home — the northern reaches of Anishinaabewaking

"I wrote the introduction to this book because it has influenced me profoundly

Goeman illuminates how these works can serve to remap settler geographies and center Native knowledges

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