The aim of this Element is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American co

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to th

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Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coerc

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