United States: Enclosures Of Land And Sovereignty: The Allotment Of American Indian Lands

United States: Enclosures Of Land And Sovereignty: The Allotment Of American Indian Lands David A. Chang, 2011   This essay cautiously compares the dispossession of Native lands in the United States with the enclosure of the English commons, in light of the transfer of political sovereignty that occurred in the case it explores. The federal policy of dividing American Indian nations' tribal lands into privately owned parcels led to the loss of Native lands and obscured the colonial nature...

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