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Resource extraction and native dispossession proceeded as one linked process

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aliases@martusewicz_ecojustice_2014, loc. 1196

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Resource extraction and native dispossession proceeded as one linked process

Evidence

The biologically diverse prairies of the mid-west were tilled under to become farmland. The north woods of Maine, and later Michigan and Wisconsin were stripped of virgin forest. This process continued throughout the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth century. In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for example, it took just 30 years between 1880 and 1910 to completely fell the virgin pine forests down to the last tree. The Ojibwe people who hunted and fished those lands and streams, were moved onto a reservation through a treaty that stripped them of all rights to the land and streams they had once depended upon for life. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1196

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly serves the polyad’s land/place and settler-colonial threads; pairs local Michigan example with Ojibwe displacement. — connects to: Data extraction functions like colonial resource appropriation despite different modes — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 27; Colonial maps enabled wealth extraction by exploiting resource-access differentials — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 919; Colonial extraction logics are structurally recapitulated in contemporary data platforms — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 346 (+2 more)

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