Indianapolis institutions and suburbs occupy land taken from Black families and Native nations

Evidence

I also want to acknowledge that the institution where I work in Indianapolis sits on land that once belonged to scores of African American families who were forced from their homes. The community where I live sits on the land of the Kiikaapoi, Kaskaskia, and Myaamia nations. The histories of where we find ourselves matter. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 39

Categorization

• SHARE: An Indianapolis author noting displaced Black families as well as tribes on the local land is a precise detail someone focused on local history would value.
• XREF: connects to: Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies; Settler nations were built on stolen land and enslaved people. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 763; Southern white families’ land claims were founded on Native American removal — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 23 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Settler nations were built on stolen land and enslaved people. #expands (0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 763
• Racial violence and legal seizure stripped black property from those who built it #expands (0.85)
• Southern white families’ land claims were founded on Native American removal #exemplifies (0.82) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 23
• Black property owners faced escalating tactics from covenants to eminent domain to lynching #expands (0.82) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 325
• Federal land giveaways excluded black Americans while enriching white settlers #expands (0.80) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 327
• White subject positions were both cause and effect of nation-building and land-taking #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754
• Early zoning bodies deliberately down-zoned black neighborhoods to industrial status #exemplifies (0.78) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 362
• Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies #complicates (0.75)