The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property language reference This language program stresses the

This language program stresses the cultural and traditional beliefs of the Ojibwe

Tracing the implications of refusal

Weaving together the voices of four indelible women

Aislinn Thomas

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The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property language reference This language program stresses theThe 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