An Indigenous fact that speaks to Power : “I wasn’t born in Australia. Australia was born on our land!”
The colonial state treated indigenous populations as either less than human or as incapable of owning property privately.
The idea that indigenous peoples do not cultivate their land — going back to that Lockean fantasy that America existed as this uncultivated wild — is a racial trope
Interview
https://play.acast.com/s/jacobin-radio/dig-colonial-lives-of-property-w-brenna-bhandar
Transcript
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