Before State Lines, There Was the Mississippi River: Tracing Land, Continuity, and Ownership in Louisiana
Before State Lines, There Was the River
Long before Louisiana became a state,
before Oklahoma existed,
before many modern borders
How to Begin Tracing Continuity Through the Five Nations
For many descendants today, the search for continuity begins with fragments.
A family story about Cherokee ancestry.
A relative who
Sovereignty Leaves Records
Many communities across the world have endured injustice, dispossession, forced assimilation, discrimination, violence, and historical crimes that reshaped generations.
That
Taking What’s Mine Doesn’t Make It Yours. It Makes It Stolen.
There are forms of interruption that affect land.
Forms that affect governance.
Forms that affect inheritance.
And then there are
Restoration Begins With Retrieval
In the modern world, restoration is often misunderstood.
People hear the word and imagine returning everything to the way it
What Is Continuity?
What Is Continuity?
In the consumer-centered world of today, most people are taught to look forward almost constantly.
Toward what
How Sovereignty Becomes Interrupted
Most people imagine the loss of sovereignty as something immediate.
A war.
A conquest.
A government collapsing overnight.
But many
What Is Sovereignty?
Most people hear the word sovereignty and imagine governments, borders, treaties, or political authority.
But sovereignty begins much closer to
