Native incommensurability claims and settler quantification cannot reconcile

Evidence

There is no way to set a price on this way of life. That simple truth more than anything else encapsulates the Anishinaabeg people’s struggle with the federal government, the miners, and the logging companies. For the past hundred years, Native people have been saying that their way of life, their land, their trees, and their very future, cannot be quantified and are not for sale. And for that same amount of time, government and industry accountants have been picking away, trying to come up with a formula to compensate Indians for the theft of their lands and livelihoods. So long as both remain steadfast, there appears to be little hope for a meeting of minds in the next generations. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 593

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Smithsonian anthropometry manufactured mixed-blood status to legalize land sales — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 609; Hawaiian customary land practice can override private paper title in court — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 829; Indigenous land-as-gift and settler land-as-property are irreconcilable worldviews — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 70

Broader Connections

• Indigenous land-as-gift and settler land-as-property are irreconcilable worldviews #exemplifies (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 70