Contents
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
t¿iptuk¿¿h¿ wa t¿iptut¿¿¿n¿, where are you from and where are you going?: patterns, parcels, and place nitspu ti¿hin
Sarah Biscarra Dilley
Narrated Nationhood and Imagined Belonging: Fanciful Family Stories 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 Metis Scrip at the Fringe of Focus
Jennifer Adese
Makhoì¿he Khiìpi: A Dakota Family Story of Race, Land, and Dispossession before the Dawes Act
Jameson R. Sweet
Anishnaabe 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. K¿haulani Kauanui
The Enduring Confiscation of Indigenous Allotments in the National Interest—P¿kaewhenua 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 Sápmi: 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 Taylor
I do what I do for the language: Land and Choctaw Language and Cultural Revitalization
Megan Baker
Tse Wah Zha Zhi
Ruby Hansen Murray
Afterword: Indigenous Foresight Under Duress and the Modern Applicability of Allotment Agreements
Stacy L. Leeds
Glossary
Contributors
Index
