The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony Other Ojibway words and names

Other Ojibway words and names appear in the text

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

challenged white American perceptions of modernity

With the threat of a group home looming

visiting with other First Nations peoples

The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony Other Ojibway words and namesThe White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession. Moreton