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Land - Coggle Diagram
Land
Knowledge
Attacking of places to get rid of knowledge. Old Man House burned 1870; potlatch banned, any sort of assimilation attacked the places where knowledge lived.
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“Living in Place” the ayeyesh girl learns from grandmother Cedar: the land itself is the teacher.
wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ (Intellectual House, 2015) — built on Coast Salish values of relationship, respect & reciprocity.
stolen
Morrill Act (1862): ~10.7 million acres taken from ~250 Tribes through 160+ violence-backed land cessions.
- Land-Grab Universities Reading
Land raised endowments for 52 universities — incl. Washington State University. Over ¼ of parcels: $0 paid for Indigenous title.
- Land-Grab Universities Reading
Land-grant universities recite land acknowledgments — yet the funds “remain on university ledgers to this day.”
- Land-Grab Universities Reading
“Built not just on Indigenous land, but with Indigenous land” the myth of the “free gift” of land.
- Land-Grab Universities Reading
Relationship
I live & learn on Duwamish, Suquamish & Coast Salish lands
I grew up in Dubai, the land from the Al Bu Falasah faction of the Bani Yas Tribe that led the foundations for what became Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
A land acknowledgment isn’t enough, learning whose land it is and how it was taken is the acknowledgment.
Data Centers & AI
Data centers strain aquifers, energy & land; battery minerals mined from the Atacama Salt Flat in Indigenous territory.
AI trained on un-consented data is “threatening to distort and erase our knowledge” — Danielle Boyer (Anishinaabe).
“Land run on mineral rights… AI and our data are another iteration” of the extractive cycle — Rusty Pickens (Chickasaw Nation).
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