In Becoming Kin, Patty Krawec quotes Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz:
“Put simply, immigrants come to a place and join with the existing political order. Settlers come to a place and impose a political order.”
Quoting Not “A Nation of Immigrants”. Page 65 of Becoming Kin. 2022
This is one of many sentences where Krawec writes powerfully with clarity. In the first third of the book, other examples of such precision are:
- twin entitlements to land and to bodies on page 60
- Community, jubilee and aversion of accumulation on page 55
- Contradictions of sovereign colonized on page 52
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in 2005 the majority opinion upholding the laws and rights of colonization over the sovereign Oneida nation on page 52
- Land ownership being different than any other material possession owned on page 46
- Power over women occurring with the accumulation of wealth and more resources than one needs on page 43.
- Land acknowledgments on pages 38-39.
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