The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony or finding the universe in

or finding the universe in an eagle feather

With the threat of a group home looming

You cannot discover lands already inhabited

and action that would be genuinely new for Native and non-Native relations

" (Globe & Mail 2008-08-26)

The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony or finding the universe inThe White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession. Moreton