Private Property in Land Among Reservation Indians in Southern California

Sutton, Imre

doi:10.1353/pcg.1967.0011

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“…TAKIC: While the origins of the Takic group are still under active debate, there were clear markers of a major population change around 3,000 years BP (Sutton 2009). Kerr (2004) argues that Takic speakers arrived on the southern Channel Islands somewhere between 3,000 BP and 2,500 BP.…”

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A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family

Greenhill¹,

Haynie²,

Ross³

et al. 2023

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The Uto-Aztecan language family is one of the largest language families in the Americas.However, there has been considerable debate about its origin and how it spread. Here we use Bayesian phylogenetic methods to analyze lexical data from 34 Uto-Aztecan varieties and 2 Kiowa-Tanoan languages. We infer the age of Proto-Uto-Aztecan to be around 4,100 years ago (3,258 -5,025 years), and identify the most likely homeland to be near what is now southern California. We reconstruct the most probable subsistence strategy in the ancestral Uto-Aztecan society and infer no casual or intensive cultivation, an absence of cereal crops, and a primary subsistence mode of gathering (rather than agriculture). Our results therefore support the timing, geography, and cultural practices of a northern origin, and are inconsistent with alternative scenarios.

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Section: Calibrations Northern Uto-aztecanmentioning

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A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family

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Haynie²,

Ross³

et al. 2023

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“…In the California desert, the ATSF links Needles and Barstow, claiming the traditional territory of Chemehuevi and Serrano peoples (Wood, n.d.). In most cases, land grants preceded the establishment of tribal reservations, proving that the US government’s priority was the railroad (Sutton, 1967). The railroad recruited Diné and Chinese labor to build the railroad lines (Drover, 1985), and built a railroad station atop the town of Needles, the home of the Mojave people, and where the Fort Mojave Reservation is today.…”

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Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert

Sizek

2021

Environ Plan D

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This paper proposes the concept of zombie infrastructure to understand the entangled histories of railroad colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and corporate power in the California desert. I examine debates over the Cadiz project, a contemporary water project that proposes to take water from a California desert aquifer and transport it to the California coast. I argue that the life of the Cadiz project depends on Cadiz Inc.’s ability to revive the legal rights and body of a little-used railroad shortline, thus bringing back a legal infrastructure and corporate power from the late nineteenth century in the service of a new corporation. In so doing, the Cadiz project enlivens the racialized dispossession of land and labor that the railroad initially required. Routing the politics of a contemporary infrastructure project through the railroad and its octopus past, I argue, places the politics of infrastructure at the intersection of laws, monstrosity, and dispossession. Drawing on economic and legal geography, this paper proposes the concept of zombie infrastructure, a concept that builds on what activists call zombie projects in order to show the life and death of infrastructure, and reveals how contemporary capitalists enliven old infrastructures for new purposes.

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“…It was the hope of pro-assimilation lawmakers that the allotment of land would make indigenous peoples "selfreliant and market oriented," characteristics typically held by capitalistic Anglo Americans. [7] As citizenship to native inhabitants of the United States would not be granted until 1924, policy makers also attempted to make the offer enticing by promising citizenship to those who bought land and took up residence "separate and apart from any tribe of Indians therein, and has adopted the habits of civilized life." [8] While policymakers saw citizenship as a path to undermine tribal unity, US citizenship gave indigenous Californians the opportunity at gaining economic and political security, something the indigenous people of the United States had not had since prior to Anglo-Europeans occupation of their land.…”

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