Where the nation takes place: Proprietary regimes, antistatism, and U.S. settler colonialism

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 833-861

  Goldstein, Alyosha ^a  

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EID: 60950391485     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2008-019     Document Type: Review

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3. On the constitution of law in the colonial context, see especially Nasser Hussain, The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003).
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12. On U.S. white-Indian relations, also see Thomas Biolsi, Deadliest Enemies: Law and Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007);
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27. Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 150-90.
28. The 1842 treaty between the Oneida and New York State acknowledged that tribal land was held in common, but an appendix to the treaty divided the territory into parcels attributed to individual Oneida families. A New York State law the following year sanctioned private ownership among the Oneida, although the state in fact lacked authority to do this without congressional authorization. 21 Segwalise, "The Hau De No Sau Nee: A Nation Since Time Immemorial," in Basic Call to Consciousness, ed. Akwesasne Notes (1978; Summertown, TN: Book Publishing Co., 1981), 1-6;
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34. See, for instance, Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006);
35. Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1987), 55-77;
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42. Coldebella and Puzella, "The Landowner Defendants," 589-90.
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44. as quoted in Patrick W. Wandres, "Indian Land Claims: Sherrill and the Impending Legacy of the Doctrine of Laches," American Indian Law Review 131.1 (2007): 136.
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47. Also see David Stout, "Justices Refuse to Restore Sovereignty to Land Bought by Indians," New York Times, March 29, 2005.
48. Sarah Krakoff, "City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York: A Regretful Postscript to the Taxation Chapter in Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law," Tulsa Law Review 41.5 (2006): 10.
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53. and Jeffrey R. Dudas, "In the Name of Equal Rights: 'Special' Rights and the Politics of Resentment in Post-Civil Rights America," Law and Society Review 39.4 (2005): 723-58.
54. John C. Mohawk, "In the Indian Conflict, There Is More Than One Kind of 'Us' against 'Them,'" Buffalo News, April 26, 1997
55. as quoted in Bruce E. Johansen and Barbara A. Mann, eds., The Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), 302.
56. On present-day tax politics in the United States, see Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, "Tax Politics and the Struggle over Activist Government," in The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism, ed. Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 256-80.
57. In 2004, the Oneida Nation employed 4,215 people, 97 percent of whom were non-Indian. That year the Oneida spent $140 million that supported an additional 1,928 jobs in construction and related industries. Oneida vendor payments totaled $342.3 million in New York State, of which $59.8 million went directly to firms and individuals in Onondaga, Oneida, and Madison counties. Jill Tiefenthaler and Chris Brown, The Impact of the Turning Stone Casino on Employment, Taxation, and Social Factors in the Three-County Area (Hamilton, NY: Upstate Institute, Colgate University, 2005), 29-40.
58. On tribal casinos more broadly, see Renée Ann Cramer, Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgement (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005);
59. and Steven Andrew Light and Kathryn R. L. Rand, Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005).
60. As quoted in editorial, "Let Calm Prevail; Idle Talk of Guns and Fighting Cannot Serve Resolution of Land Claims," Syracuse Post-Standard, August 9, 2000
61. Olson, "Give It Back to the Indians?"
62. Joel Rose, "We Are Not Racists," ArtVoice, July 20, 2006, http://artvoice.com/issues/ v5n29/letters-to-artvoice (accessed March 21, 2008).
63. As quoted in David L. Shaw, "Claim Foes Take Message to Motorists/State Police Tell Protesters to Remove Slogan-Bearing Signs Lining a Seneca Falls Road," Syracuse Post-Standard, May 27, 2000
64. reprinted in Porter, Sovereignty, Colonialism, 283.
65. As quoted in Eva Mackey, "Universal Rights in Conflict: 'Backlash' and 'Benevolent Resistance' to Indigenous Land Rights," Anthropology Today 21.2 (April 2005): 18.
66. As quoted in editorial, "Foes See Land Claim as a Hoax without Any Sound Legal Basis," Syracuse Post-Standard, June 25, 2000
67. As quoted in Hart Seely and Michelle Breidenbach, "Uncivil Civil Claim; Hate Mail, Naming-Calling: Threats Fly as Indians Sue," Syracuse Post-Standard, September 26, 1999
68. A. R. Eguiguren, Legalized Racism: Federal Indian Policy and the End of Equal Rights for All Americans (Heathsville, VA: Sun on Earth Books, 2000), 104-5.
69. For similar arguments, also see T. David Price, The Second Civil War: Examining the Indian Demand for Ethnic Sovereignty (St. Paul Park, MN: Second Source, 1998);
70. and Elaine Devary Willman, Going to Pieces: The Dismantling of the United States of America (Toppenish, WA: Equilocus, 2005).
71. As quoted in editorial, "Foes See Land Claim as a Hoax," 282.
72. Audra Simpson, "Paths toward a Mohawk Nation: Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood in Kahnawake," in Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ed. Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton, and Will Sanders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 113-36;
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75. and J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, "The Politics of Hawaiian Blood and Sovereignty in Rice v. Cayetano," in Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Strugglesfor Self-Determination, ed. Joanne Barker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 87-108.
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77. For a related discussion on the subject of human rights and the rights of the rightless, see Jacques Rancière, "Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man?" SAQ 103.2-3 (Spring-Summer 2004): 297-310.
78. As quoted in Mackey, "Universal Rights in Conflict," 18-19.
79. As quoted in Peter Lyman, "Oneidas Accuse UCE Head of Racism," Syracuse Post-Standard, December 8, 2006.
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81. For a recent analysis of the Marshall trilogy, see Robert A. Williams, Jr., Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), 47-70;
82. and Joanne Barker, "For Whom Sovereignty Matters," in Sovereignty Matters, 1-31.
83. Nicholas Blomley, "The Borrowed View: Privacy, Propriety, and the Entanglements of Property," Law and Social Inquiry 30.4 (2005): 617-61.
84. Taiaiake Alfred, Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2005), 152-53, 155,206.
85. On rethinking the utility of sovereignty, see especially Barker, "For Whom Sovereignty Matters"; and Taiaiake Alfred, "Sovereignty," in Sovereignty Matters, 33-50.
86. On pluri-nationality, see Suzana Sawyer, Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004).
87. On agonistic pluralism, see Chantal MoufTe, The Democratic Paradox (New York: Verso, 2000);
88. and Chantal Mouffe, On the Political (New York: Routledge, 2005).
89. Mouffe theorizes agonistic pluralism as a means to underscore the vital adversarial dimension of politics and in contrast to liberal pluralism. She argues, "Liberal theorists are unable to acknowledge not only the primary reality of strife in social life and the impossibility of finding rational, impartial solutions to political issues but also the integrative role that conflict plays in modern democracy." Mouffe, On the Political, 30-31.
90. S. James Anaya, "Reparations for Neglect of Indigenous Land Rights at the Intersection of Domestic and International Law: The Maya Cases in the Supreme Court of Belize," in Reparations for Indigenous Peoples: International and Comparative Perspectives, ed. Federico Lenzerini (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 567-603.