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Stealing Oak Flat without Apology

Here is a great piece by Mark Charles about the loss of sacred Apache lands: The Stealing of Oak Flat & the Trauma of the Doctrine of Discovery It notes that both the theft of Oak Flat and a general … Continue reading

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On this date… February 28, 1823… Washington, D.C.

On this date, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall redefined land ownership in America in the case of Johnson v. M’Intosh. It was a stretch, but he went back to the fifteenth century, when the Pope allotted newly discovered lands … Continue reading

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