#dispossession — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dispossession, aggregated by home.social.
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#OnThisDayInHistory: May 28, 1830, #AndrewJackson Signs #IndianRemovalAct
by Levi Rickert May 28, 2026
"On this day in 1830 — 196 years ago — President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law.
"The Act created a process that allowed the president to exchange lands west of the Mississippi River for the homelands of Native tribes in the eastern United States. In return, tribes were promised financial assistance, supplies for relocation, and the guarantee that they could live on their new lands under the protection of the United States government “forever.”
"In practice, however, the Indian Removal Act became a tool of #coercion and #dispossession. Under Jackson and his supporters, #NativeNations were pressured, bribed, and forced into signing #RemovalTreaties that stripped them of their ancestral territories across the Southeast.
"By the end of his presidency, Jackson had signed nearly 70 removal treaties, leading to the forced relocation of approximately 50,000 #NativeAmericans to what was then called #IndianTerritory, in present-day #Oklahoma. Entire nations were uprooted from lands they had inhabited for generations and pushed into unfamiliar territory designated by the federal government.
"The policy culminated in the Trail of Tears — one of the darkest chapters in American history. Thousands of Native people died from disease, #starvation, and exposure during the forced marches west, including nearly one-quarter of the #CherokeeNation.
"Because of his central role in Native removal and the suffering it caused, many Native Americans remember Jackson as the '#IndianKiller' president and continue to oppose efforts to honor him, including his image remaining on the twenty-dollar bill."
#USHistory #USPol #Genocide #TrailOfTears #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #ForcedRelocation #HumanRightsViolations
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 -
I've never done anything but love my experiences with Erdrich's words and worlds. And somehow, this one slipped past me. Maybe, even, worth a 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘴 podcast episode later this week?
#books #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #louiseerdrich #thenightwatchman #fiction #novel #indigenousliterature #IndianTerminationAct #TribalSovereignty #Dispossession #Assimilation #ojibwaliterature
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"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.
A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.
"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
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On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration -
🗣❗ She explains that people belonging to the ejido de Bacalar, and others who haven’t identified themselves, are the ones who are intimidating them.
Read "Bacalar: Those Left Behind and Forgotten by the Dispossession of the Maya Train" here 👉 https://avispa.org/?p=102386
#México #Dispossession #MayaTrain #Bacalar #QuintanaRoo #Yucatán
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🗣❗ Alongside the tourist fuss in the #Mayan town of Bacalar, Quintana Roo, lies the dispossession and ecological destruction caused by the construction of the Mayan Train
👁👁 Check all the info here 👇 https://avispa.org/?p=102386
#México #Yucatán #QuintanaRoo #MayaTrain #Dispossession #Bacalar
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Carlson mused, “It does seem like #anarcho-#tyranny is one of these ideas, you know, that some political philosopher thought up a long time ago.”
Well, no. The expression belongs to #Sam #Francis—the late #paleoconservative columnist whose disgust with establishment Republicans, managerial elites (of any party), and the idea of a majority-minority America has led him to be widely cited by intellectuals of the #MAGA movement.
Francis’ idea was not that anarcho- tyranny was an age-old problem, but rather that it was the product of an “entirely new form of government” that was “unique in human history.”
In a 1994 article, Francis proclaimed that a first-of-its-kind “Hegelian synthesis” had been created by the upper class as the 20th century closed. This perversion forced the aggrieved masses to live under both anarchy and tyranny at once.
Here, he suggested, was a government imposing on "us" while allowing "them" to do as they pleased.
And the identities of us and them were clear: Francis wrote from a home office that was once #Robert #E. #Lee’s childhood bedroom. He was pushed out of the right-wing Washington Times in 1995 for, essentially, being #too #bigoted. He obsessed over any restrictions that could touch a middle-class white person: #speed #limits, the #tax #code, #gun #laws, and even #child #porn #statutes.
But he often ignored other oppressions enforced by the state: #slavery, #Jim #Crow, and generations of deliberate #economic #dispossession.