#Collabrary 65: "Rendering settler sovereign landscapes: Race & property in the Empire State" by @MeredithAlberta on the intertwined techniques of racism, land surveying, cultivation, and settler courts to dispossess Oneida Nation of their land in NY. 1/5 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263775820922233

Palmer outlines how "settler sovereign landscapes" are created through "particular racial & spatial orderings of people & things" (794), from hierarchies of civilization tied to land cultivation, the way lines are drawn on maps, the way survey tools clear trees. 2/5

If you're looking for receipts for exactly how Haudenosaunee were dispossessed of their land & that land was turned into property (it takes A LOT of work) & how those techniques are aligned with specific European theories & concepts of value, this your text! Details! Quotes! 3/5

I also found this of great value: "Starting from the Haudenosaunee perspective that land cannot be stolen b/c it is a relation and not an object, I ... interpret the social and territorial practices that are continually put to work to maintain Indigenous dispossession" (795). 4/5

I found this to be a hard read. It's rough reading through the systematic, overtly racist techniques of dispossession of the past and present. It also shows Justice Ruth Ginsburg's central role in that dispossession & the recent celebration of her work & life is fresh in the mind