Theft Is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory

Theft Is Property! Dispossession and Critical TheoryDrawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth century to the present, Robert Nichols argues that dispossession

Blending action and allegory

and intellectual frameworks in their struggles toward liberation and self-determination

Living Words is a representative offering

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have traveled with their family to the Great Plains of Dakota Territory

Josie is nervous about her performance in the arena and about all the pieces falling into place

I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction that lets the worn and tired bits drop away

of Joseph as a war leader

in Mankato

and was larger than any contemporary European city

This book features clear explanations of Dakota conjugation patterns

She hopes to dance at the next powwow