The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property graphic novels Stephanie Woodard's American Apartheid reveals

Stephanie Woodard's American Apartheid reveals not only the extraordinary difficulties under which First Americans labor

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The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property graphic novels Stephanie Woodard's American Apartheid revealsThe 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