By shifting the focus from policy to people, Allotment Stories offers a fresh and deeply compelling retelling of the privatization of Indigenous lands. The book eschews mooring discussions of allotment in the 1887 Dawes Act in the United States. Instead, this collection of more than two dozen community-centered essays or creative contributions showcases how Indigenous people across the globe resiliently grappled with and responded to the consequences of a variety of efforts at land privatization. The book has a broad geographic and temporal scope. Many contributions focus on the continental United States and Canada, but the collection also includes essays that address Aotearoa New Zealand, Mexico, Palestine, Hawaii, Alaska, the Sápmi region of northern Europe, and Guam. Although a few take on earlier periods, most essays examine nineteenth-century, twentieth-century, or contemporary contexts. Taken together, the essays testify to diverse and dynamic Indigenous resistance, restoration, and resurgence in the face of...
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