Raised in traditional Ute territory in Colorado and now living in shÍshÁlh territory in British Columbia, Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) is professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English at the University of British Columbia, xwməΘkwəy̓əm territory. He is author of Why Indigenous Literatures Matter and Our Fire Survives the Storm (Minnesota, 2005).Jean M. O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) is Distinguished McKnight and Northrop Professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota within Dakota homelands. Her books include Dispossession by Degrees and Firsting and Lasting (Minnesota, 2010).

"At times devastating and at others deeply hopeful, every essay in the collection carries a weight atypical in scholarly anthologies; readers are made to feel a sense of responsibility and gratitude for the often-personal narratives."-Transmotion"Allotment Stories emphasizes the power of narrative by assembling a collection of poetic, personally inflected essays and academic writings that who how and why the privatization of land is a and always was about indigenous dispossession."-American Indian Quarterly"This is not a volume that shies away from difficult topics, especially when it comes to the realities of family histories that can be both beautiful and messy. That directness and honesty is one of its strengths."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal

• ContentsIntroduction: What’s Done to the People Is Done to the LandDaniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien$85 an AcreLeanne Betasamosake SimpsonPart I. Family Narrations of Privatizationtʸiptukɨłhɨ wa tʸiptutʸɨˀnɨ, where are you from and where are you going?: patterns, parcels, and place nitspu tiłhinSarah Biscarra DilleyNarrated Nationhood and Imagined Belonging: Fanciful Family Stories and Kinship Legacies of AllotmentDaniel Heath JusticeMaking Mahnomen Home: The Dawes Act and Ojibwe Mobility in Grandma’s StoriesJean M. O’BrienThe World of Paper, Restoring Relations, and the Lower Brule Sioux TribeNick Estes“What should we do?”: Returning Fractionated Allotments Back to the Tribes, One Family’s StorySheryl LightfootAllotment Speculations: The Emergence of Land MemoryJoseph M. PierceInterlude: KinscapeMarilyn DumontPart II. Racial and Gender TaxonomiesBlut und Boden: “Mixed-Bloods” and MÉtis in U.S. Allotment and Canadian Enfranchisement PoliciesDarren O’TooleExtinguishing the Dead: Colonial Anxieties and Metis Scrip at the Fringe of FocusJennifer AdeseMakhoÌčhe KhiÌpi: A Dakota Family Story of Race, Land, and Dispossession before the Dawes ActJameson R. SweetAnishnaabe Women and the Struggle for Indigenous Land Rights in Northern Michigan, 1836–1887Susan E. GrayᎪᎩ ᎤᏗᏞᎩ ᏗᏛᎪᏗ ᎾᏂᏪᏍᎬ ᎶᎶ: You can hear locusts in the heat of the summerCandessa TeheeInterlude: AmikodeLeanne Betasamosake SimpsonPart III. Privatization as State ViolenceItinerant Indigeneities: Navigating GuÅhan’s Treacherous Roads Through CHamoru Feminist PathwaysChristine Taitano DeLisle and Vicente M. DiazSettler Colonial Purchase: Privatizing Hawaiian LandJ. Kēhaulani KauanuiThe Enduring Confiscation of Indigenous Allotments in the National Interest-Pōkaewhenua 1961–1969Dione Payne“Why does a hat need so much land?”Shiri PasternakStories of American Indian Freedom: The Privatization of American Indian Resources from Allotment to the PresentWilliam BauerThe Incorporation of Life and Land: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement ActBenjamin Hugh VelaiseInterlude: Long Live Deatnu and the Grand AllotmentRauna KuokkanenPart IV. Resistance and ResurgenceIndigenous and Traditional Rewilding in Finland and SÁpmi: Enacting the Rights and Governance of North Karelian ICCAs and Skolt SÁmiTero Mustonen and Pauliina FeodoroffSettler Colonial Mexico and Indigenous Primordial TitlesKelly S. McDonough“Our Divine Right to Land”: The Struggle against Privatization of Nahua Communal LandsArgelia Segovia LigaAfter Property: The Sakhina Struggle in Late Ottoman and British-ruled Palestine, 1876–1948Munir Fakher EldinHow to Get a Home, How to Work, and How to LiveKhal SchneiderPetitioning Allotment: Collectivist Stories of Indigenous SolidarityMichael TaylorI do what I do for the language: Land and Choctaw Language and Cultural RevitalizationMegan BakerTse Wah Zha ZhiRuby Hansen MurrayAfterword: Indigenous Foresight Under Duress and the Modern Applicability of Allotment AgreementsStacy L. LeedsGlossaryContributorsIndex

Raised in traditional Ute territory in Colorado and now living in shÍshÁlh territory in British Columbia, Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) is professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English at the University of British Columbia, xwməΘkwəy̓əm territory. He is author of Why Indigenous Literatures Matter and Our Fire Survives the Storm (Minnesota, 2005).Jean M. O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) is Distinguished McKnight and Northrop Professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota within Dakota homelands. Her books include Dispossession by Degrees and Firsting and Lasting (Minnesota, 2010).

"At times devastating and at others deeply hopeful, every essay in the collection carries a weight atypical in scholarly anthologies; readers are made to feel a sense of responsibility and gratitude for the often-personal narratives."-Transmotion"Allotment Stories emphasizes the power of narrative by assembling a collection of poetic, personally inflected essays and academic writings that who how and why the privatization of land is a and always was about indigenous dispossession."-American Indian Quarterly"This is not a volume that shies away from difficult topics, especially when it comes to the realities of family histories that can be both beautiful and messy. That directness and honesty is one of its strengths."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal

• ContentsIntroduction: What’s Done to the People Is Done to the LandDaniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien$85 an AcreLeanne Betasamosake SimpsonPart I. Family Narrations of Privatizationtʸiptukɨłhɨ wa tʸiptutʸɨˀnɨ, where are you from and where are you going?: patterns, parcels, and place nitspu tiłhinSarah Biscarra DilleyNarrated Nationhood and Imagined Belonging: Fanciful Family Stories and Kinship Legacies of AllotmentDaniel Heath JusticeMaking Mahnomen Home: The Dawes Act and Ojibwe Mobility in Grandma’s StoriesJean M. O’BrienThe World of Paper, Restoring Relations, and the Lower Brule Sioux TribeNick Estes“What should we do?”: Returning Fractionated Allotments Back to the Tribes, One Family’s StorySheryl LightfootAllotment Speculations: The Emergence of Land MemoryJoseph M. PierceInterlude: KinscapeMarilyn DumontPart II. Racial and Gender TaxonomiesBlut und Boden: “Mixed-Bloods” and MÉtis in U.S. Allotment and Canadian Enfranchisement PoliciesDarren O’TooleExtinguishing the Dead: Colonial Anxieties and Metis Scrip at the Fringe of FocusJennifer AdeseMakhoÌčhe KhiÌpi: A Dakota Family Story of Race, Land, and Dispossession before the Dawes ActJameson R. SweetAnishnaabe Women and the Struggle for Indigenous Land Rights in Northern Michigan, 1836–1887Susan E. GrayᎪᎩ ᎤᏗᏞᎩ ᏗᏛᎪᏗ ᎾᏂᏪᏍᎬ ᎶᎶ: You can hear locusts in the heat of the summerCandessa TeheeInterlude: AmikodeLeanne Betasamosake SimpsonPart III. Privatization as State ViolenceItinerant Indigeneities: Navigating GuÅhan’s Treacherous Roads Through CHamoru Feminist PathwaysChristine Taitano DeLisle and Vicente M. DiazSettler Colonial Purchase: Privatizing Hawaiian LandJ. Kēhaulani KauanuiThe Enduring Confiscation of Indigenous Allotments in the National Interest-Pōkaewhenua 1961–1969Dione Payne“Why does a hat need so much land?”Shiri PasternakStories of American Indian Freedom: The Privatization of American Indian Resources from Allotment to the PresentWilliam BauerThe Incorporation of Life and Land: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement ActBenjamin Hugh VelaiseInterlude: Long Live Deatnu and the Grand AllotmentRauna KuokkanenPart IV. Resistance and ResurgenceIndigenous and Traditional Rewilding in Finland and SÁpmi: Enacting the Rights and Governance of North Karelian ICCAs and Skolt SÁmiTero Mustonen and Pauliina FeodoroffSettler Colonial Mexico and Indigenous Primordial TitlesKelly S. McDonough“Our Divine Right to Land”: The Struggle against Privatization of Nahua Communal LandsArgelia Segovia LigaAfter Property: The Sakhina Struggle in Late Ottoman and British-ruled Palestine, 1876–1948Munir Fakher EldinHow to Get a Home, How to Work, and How to LiveKhal SchneiderPetitioning Allotment: Collectivist Stories of Indigenous SolidarityMichael TaylorI do what I do for the language: Land and Choctaw Language and Cultural RevitalizationMegan BakerTse Wah Zha ZhiRuby Hansen MurrayAfterword: Indigenous Foresight Under Duress and the Modern Applicability of Allotment AgreementsStacy L. LeedsGlossaryContributorsIndex