...Land ...

... in art history, and in terms of Native American political sovereignty and land rights, as well as indigenous conceptions of nationhood in relation to the natural environment. This chapter also sketches a history of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, conflicts with non-Native settlers and the U.S. military...

...Red Land ...

... The network of caciques-apoderados (cacique legal representatives) sought to defend the lands of Indian communities threatened by the expansion of haciendas after the liberal agrarian legislation of 1866 and 1874 (see part V). This network emerged in five of the nine departments in the country...

... In his novel Sundown (1934), John Joseph Mathews traces how allotment pressures Osages to conform to a vision of futurity defined by the state’s extension of authority over Native peoples and lands. He explores how Osage histories of placemaking influence ordinary perception in ways...