White Earth’s clearcut funded Weyerhaeuser and lasted a century.

Evidence

Virtually my entire reservation was clearcut at the turn of the century. In 1874, Anishinaabe leader Wabunoquod said, “I cried and prayed that our trees would not be taken from us, for they are as much ours as is this reservation.” Our trees provided the foundation for major lumber companies, including Weyerhauser, and their destruction continued for ten decades. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 65

Categorization

• XREF: Directly links Indian land loss to a named timber corporation — the property-to-extraction pipeline central to eco-justice and land-use history. — connects to: Resistance through litigation and land recovery is restoring White Earth forests and culture — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 67; Market purchase by a land trust is restoring endangered maple sugarbush at White Earth. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 655
• QUESTION: Need the legal mechanism — allotment and the Nelson Act — by which Anishinaabe timber left the reservation; chapter likely delivers later.
• ADDENDUM: ‘Grafting & Growth: On Trees as Infrastructure’ covers timber and bark as worldbuilding material; this is the inverse — timber extraction as dispossession of a forest people.