Chief Ayeeta-pepe-tung conceived himself as made of the land

Evidence

Aimée Craft has analyzed the newspaper accounts of the 1871 negotiations of Treaty 1 involving Anishinaabe, Cree and Canadian representatives. Craft writes that “Chief Ayeeta-pepe-tung spoke to the Queen’s negotiators about his ‘ownership’ and his view that rather than owning it, he was made of the land” (Craft 2014, 16). — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 17

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Johnson v. M’Intosh and the ownership framing in Legal Systems’ Indigenous land law course — the treaty negotiator pre-emptively refutes the ownership ontology settlers imposed. — connects to: Settler colonialism is ecological domination that rebuilds Indigenous homelands into settler ecologies. — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 65
• SHARE: Narrow gem for anyone teaching the Doctrine of Discovery / land-as-property divergence.