Cartographic Review of Indian Land Tenure and Territoriality: A Schematic Approach

Sutton, Imre

doi:10.17953/aicr.26.2.2jqk2x54353n6533

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“…Also, regarding the "amount of tillable land on each reservation and its population; the numbers clearly show that on most reservations, the amount of land required for allotment under the Dawes Act far exceeded that of tillable land" (Schwartz, 2000). While scholars are still working to understand the full-scale impact that allotment had and still has on tribal lands, leading scholars of allotment seem to all agree that allotment was a ploy to steal Native Lands (Carlson, 1981;Dippie, 1982;Hoxie, 2001;Prucha, 1984;Sutton, 2002;and so on). What we would like to bring to the reader's attention is that much of the data born from the implications of allotment are obscured by the very entity that is tasked with the empowerment of Natives in the United States, the BIA (Cobell v. Salazar, 1996;Meriam Report, 1928).…”

Section: Reclaiming and Asserting Data Futuresmentioning

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Life and times of data access: Regarding Native Lands

Brewer

Carroll

Bartecchi

et al. 2023

Environment and Planning F

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It is challenging to understand the full and detailed story of Native People’s lands in the United States. In this article, we contend that reliable and accessible data regarding Native People’s lands complicate and perpetuate those challenges. Stemming from the implications of colonial ideologies, such as the General Allotment Act of 1887, Native Peoples’ land-based data are difficult to access for Tribal Nations and researchers. Land data have been and continue to be obscured by U.S. federal processes and are dependent on unreliable systems of outdated and exclusive practices that consistently marginalize Native Peoples. Therefore, those data do not adequately inform Tribal land planning initiatives. In this article we recommend new processes that strengthen Tribal data sovereignty as the fundamental underpinnings to an inclusive and protected data in the future.

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Section: Reclaiming and Asserting Data Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life and times of data access: Regarding Native Lands

Brewer

Carroll

Bartecchi

et al. 2023

Environment and Planning F

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“…Imre Sutton, the late professor emeritus of Geography at California State University, was one of the first academics to make a national call for more work to examine the vastness and irregularity of the cartographic record for Indian lands. While there exist many maps of Indian lands, Sutton questioned the veracity of land ownership maps as it is "hard to ascertain how accurate field maps at BIA or tribal offices are today, and the published record gets out of date very quickly" [16]. If studies of allotment and the consequences of this failed policy are to be seriously examined, there exists a need for a method to be able to generate, synthesize, and analyze allotment information.…”

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Automated Mapping of Historical Native American Land Allotments at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation Using Geographic Information Systems

Meisel

Egbert

Brewer

et al. 2021

IJGI

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The General Allotment Act of 1887, also known as the Dawes Act, established the legal basis for the United States government to break up remaining tribally-owned reservation lands in the U.S. by allotting individual parcels to tribal members and selling the remaining “surplus.” This research explores the processes involved in mapping these historical allotments and describes a method to automatically generate spatial data of allotments. A custom geographic information systems (GIS) tool was created that takes tabular based allotment land descriptions and digital Public Land Survey (PLSS) databases to automatically generate spatial and attribute data of those land parcels. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota was used as the initial study area to test the mapping technique, which resulted in successfully auto-mapping over 99.1% of allotted lands on the reservation, including the smallest aliquot parcels. This GIS technique can be used to map any tribal lands or reservation with allotment data available, and currently it can be used to map over 120 individual reservations using publicly available data from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

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“…Namely, in some reservations non-natives bought land that became a separate enclave to which reservation's laws are not applicable. This provokes significant administrative, political, legal and ethnic disturbances within specific reservations (Sutton, 2002). Thus, it is possible to rethink reservations and discuss their issues, to a limited extent, as the ones in divided cities.…”

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Classifying Divided Cities: the Need for Geopolitical Perspective?

Zorko

Novak

2019

Sip

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Divided cities are common phenomena in contemporary world. Each case is driven out of a different set of factors and consists of different manifestations of divisions. This paper seeks to identify the categorization of divisions and offer the criteria that should be considered when researching the phenomenon of divided cities. The geopolitical perspective may serve as a tool for overcoming the confusion in different sets of classifications. The authors suggest four sets of criteria within which divided cities have to be considered when rethinking a geopolitical perspective on this issue. Divided cities are an empirical state of fact and appear across the Globe. Moreover, most of world cities are somehow divided, but cannot be called divided cities in geopolitical terms. This paper shows the differences in divisions taking into account geographical, political, identity and power relations bringing them into a geopolitical set of related criteria.

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Cartographic Review of Indian Land Tenure and Territoriality: A Schematic Approach

Cited by 4 publications

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Life and times of data access: Regarding Native Lands

Life and times of data access: Regarding Native Lands

Automated Mapping of Historical Native American Land Allotments at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation Using Geographic Information Systems

Classifying Divided Cities: the Need for Geopolitical Perspective?

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