Allotment stories : Indigenous land relations under settler siege

Justice, Daniel Heath, (editor.). O'Brien, Jean M., (editor.).

Summary: "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 schemes. From the use of homesteading by nineteenth-century Anishinaabe women to maintain their independence to the role that roads have played in expropriating Guam's Indigenous heritage to the links between land loss and genocide in California, Allotment Stories collects more than two dozen chronicles of white imperialism and Indigenous resistance, ranging from the historical to the contemporary. At once informing readers while provoking them toward further research into Indigenous resilience, this collection pieces back together some of what the forces of allotment have tried to tear apart"--

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ISBN: 1517908760
ISBN: 9781517908768
Physical Description: xxx, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: what's done to the people is done to the land / Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien -- $85 an acre / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Part I: Family narrations of privatization. tyiptukiłhi wa tyiptutyini, where are you from and where are you going? patterns, parcels, and place nitspu tiłhin ktityutityu / Sarah Biscarra Dilley -- Narrated nationhood and imagined belonging: fanciful family sotires and kinship legacies of allotment / Daniel Heath Justice -- Making Mahnomen home: the Dawes Act and Ojibwe mobility in grandma's stories / Jean M. O'Brien -- The world of paper, restoring relations, and the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe / Nick Estes -- "What should we do?" Returning fractionated allotments back to the tribes - one family's story / Sheryl Lightfoot -- Allotment speculations: the emergence of land memory / Joseph M. Pierce -- Interlude: kinscape / Marilyn Dumont -- Part II: Racial and gender taxonomies. Blut und Boden: "mixed-bloods" and Métis in U.S. allotment and Canadian enfranchisement policies / Darren O'Toole -- Extinguishing the dead: colonial anxieties and Métis scrip at the fringe of focus / Jennifer Adese -- Makhóčhe Khípi: a Dakota family story of race, land, and dispossession before the Dawes Act / Jameson R. Sweet -- Anishinaabe women and the struggle for indigenous land rights in northern Michigan, 1836-1887 / Susan E. Gray -- You can hear locusts in the heat of the summer / Candessa Tehee -- Interlude: Amikode / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Part III: Privatization as state violence. Itinerant indigeneities: navigating Guåhan's treacherous roads through CHamoru feminist pathways / Christine Taitano DeLisle and Vicente M. Diaz -- Settler colonial purchase: privatizing Hawaiian land / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui -- The enduring confiscation of indigenous allotments in the national interest: Pōkaewhenua 1961-1969 / Dione Payne -- "Why does a hat need so much land?" / Shiri Pasternak -- Stories of American Indian freedom: the privatization of American Indian resources from allotment to the present / William Bauer -- The incorporation of life and land: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act / Benjamin Hugh Velaise -- Interlude: Long live Deatnu and the grand allotment / Rauna Kuokkanen -- Part IV: Resistance and resurgence. Indigenous and traditional rewilding in Finland and Sámpi: enacting the rights and governance of North Karelian ICCAs and Skolt Sámi / Tero Mustonen and Pauliina Feodoroff -- Settler colonial Mexico and indigenous primordial titles / Kelly S. McDonough -- "Our divine right to land": the struggle against privatization of Nahua communal lands / Argelia Segovia Liga -- After property: the Sakhina struggle in late Ottoman and British-ruled Palestine, 1876-1948 / Munir Fakher Eldin -- How to get a home, how to work, and how to live / Khal Schneider -- Petitioning allotment: collectivist stories of indigenous solidarity / Michael P. Taylor -- I do what I do for the language: land and Choctaw language and cultural revitalization / Megan Baker -- Tse Wahzhazhe / Ruby Hansen Murray -- Afterword: indigenous foresight under duress and the modern applicability of allotment agreements / Stacy L. Leeds.