Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Indigenous Sites and Mobilities: Connected Struggles in the Long Nineteenth Century....Pages 1-23
Re-imagining Settler Sovereignty: The Call to Law at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve, Victoria 1881 (and Beyond)....Pages 24-44
Indigenous Land Loss, Justice and Race: Ann Bon and the Contradictions of Settler Humanitarianism....Pages 45-61
‘On My Ground’: Indigenous Farmers at New Norcia 1860s–1900s....Pages 62-85
The Possession and Dispossession of the Kat River Settlement....Pages 86-101
Discourses of Land Use, Land Access and Land Rights at Farmerfield and Loeriesfontein in Nineteenth-century South Africa....Pages 102-137
Living on the Rivers’ Edge at the Taieri Native Reserve....Pages 138-157
Designing Dispossession: The Select Committee on the Hudson’s Bay Company, Fur-trade Governance, Indigenous Peoples and Settler Possibility....Pages 158-172
They Would Not Give Up One Inch of It’: The Rise and Demise of St Peter’s Reserve, Manitoba....Pages 173-193
Site of Dispossession, Site of Persistence: The Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) at the Grand River Territory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries....Pages 194-213
Potawatomi Allotment in Kansas....Pages 214-232
Law, Identity and Dispossession — the Half-Caste Act of 1886 and Contemporary Legal Definitions of Indigeneity in Australia....Pages 233-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-270