Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1931. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 301-307).

This case study examines the land tenure histories of the Grand Portage and Leech Lake Bands of Ojibwe to determine how historical events inform their contemporary land acquisition strategies. The standardized federal Indian policy time periods frames this effort to track the amount of reservation land held in Ojibwe trust ownership over time while analyzing the local impact of those policies upon land tenure and acquisition. The Grand Portage and Leech Lake Bands are members of the confederated Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and this Band-level unit of analysis illuminates variations in land tenure patterns and acquisition strategies experienced within a common tribal identity. The Grand Portage Band has been remarkably successful and over 80% of that territory is under Ojibwe trust ownership, while only 5% of the Leech Lake Reservation is in Ojibwe trust ownership. The Grand Portage Band has utilized conventional and creative strategies for land acquisition. For example, the Band secured an expansion of their reservation boundary in 1982, and later acquired the Grand Portage State Park. The Leech Lake Band has experienced a harsher land tenure history as their reservation lands have been, and remain, a much more contested territory. The Chippewa National Forest was superimposed upon that reservation territory, which has effectively created a federal monopoly on land ownership and which serves as a major obstacle to effective land acquisition by the Leech Lake Band today. Other obstacles include bureaucratic inertia and state and local opposition.The emergent tribal land acquisition strategies are land purchases, as well as the purchase of fractionated trust ownership interests, negotiations with local and state governments for land exchanges, the transfer of federal "surplus lands," and pursuit of special legislation or executive orders. Furthermore, Indian land tenure and acquisition remains an important aspect of the contemporary federal trust responsibility, although weakened in practice. The federal trust responsibility must be revitalized in order to become an effective method for tribal land acquisition. The Indian land tenure reality today is that most tribes endure insufficient and inadequate tribal territories as a result of federal Indian policies, which has prompted many to prioritize land acquisition.

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-179). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Living by a commercial ethic and resisting English encroachment from New England, the Dutch made at least 40 land purchases by written deed from their Indian neighbors from 1630 to 1664. In the past, scholars have seen only a European instrument of dispossession in the so-called "Indian deeds" that document land transfers from Indians to Europeans. In fact, they are colonial phenomena with uniquely Indian qualities. This is particularly true of the Dutch-Indian deeds signed or marked between 1630 and 1664. The Dutch-Indian deeds of the seventeenth century exhibit a middle ground of land tenures, in which the Dutch were compelled to yield to aspects of Indian land tenure and law in order to successfully purchase the land and retain it without facing retaliation. Indians, for their part, partook in the sale rituals of the literate world -- deed-signing -- but resisted European notions of land deals as fixed, permanent agreements. The Dutch-Indian deeds thus emerge as fluid agreements that were a compromise between Dutch and Indian land tenures and legal conventions.

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Orientador: Maria do Rosário de Fátima Valencise Gregolin / Banca: Laércio Nora Bacelar / Banca: Eva Ucy Miranda Sá Soto / Banca: Roberto Leiser Baronas / Banca: Leandro Innocentini Lopes de Faria / Resumo: O objetivo principal da tese é levantar problemas. Problematizar a demarcação de terras indígenas no Brasil. E este texto trata, como tema geral e por meio de fundamentos teóricos da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, de discursos sobre a demarcação de Área indígena denominada Raposa/Serra do Sol. Particularmente, propomos-nos investigar o Relatório de Lindberg Farias, Deputado Federal encarregado de ser o relator da "Comissão Externa destinada a avaliar, in loco, a situação da demarcação em área contínua da "Reserva indígena Raposa Serra do Sol", no estado de Roraima". Para compreender os discursos aí presentes, definimos, após observar o conjunto de textos que deu origem ao corpus desta pesquisa, que trabalharíamos os discursos a partir do seguinte efeito de verdade: de um lado, postulamos a existência de um conjunto de dizeres que se assenta na "Lógica ocidental Capitalista", dita hegemônica ou colonialista, e, de outro, outras lógicas, chamadas contra-hegemônicas: ecológicas, indígenas, feministas, para mencionar apenas três exemplos. São esses dois lados discursivos que determinam o que se pode e o que se deve dizer quando da demarcação de terras indígenas. Durante os trabalhos, tratamos de investigar também a relação entre poder-saber na construção de identidades. Queríamos compreender a produção de verdades em enunciados sobre a Raposa/Serra do Sol, sabendo que a "verdade" é um efeito produzido pelos conflitos constitutivos de todas as relações de poder. Assim, buscamos pesquisar o que está envolvido no acontecimento discursivo "demarcação e homologação da Raposa/Serra do Sol', considerando que "o novo não está no que é dito mas no acontecimento de sua volta" (FOUCAULT:1996, p26). Porfim, com o desejo de redesenhar investigações futuras, o que significa novas propostas de trabalho... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This thesis aims to rise questions about Indian land demarcation in Brazil, specially about discourses on the boundaries of the Indian Área Raposa/Serra do Sol within the framework of the French Discourse Analysis. It investigates particularly Lindberg Farias report, the congressman charged of reporting the conclusions of the Comission which evaluates, in loco, the continuos area demarcation of the Reserva Indígena Raposa Serra do Sol, in Roraima State. To understand the discourses on this matter, we determined to analyze discourses according to the following truth effect: once we postulate that exists un ensemble of sayings based on the logic of occidental capitalism, known as hegemonic or colonialist, on the other hand exist other logics, called counter hegemonic, like the ecologic, the indigene, the feminist. Both are discursive positions which determine what is possible to say and what must be said in questions like Indian land demarcation. We also tried to investigate the relationship between knowledge/power in the identity construction. We intended to understand the production of "truth" is an effect built by conflicts which are constitutive of every power relationship. This way we try to search for what is implicated in the discursive happening "Raposa/Serra do Sol's boundaries demarcation and homologation" taking into account - according to Foucault - that the new is not in what is said but it is all about what is said. We finally broach the colonial and post-colonial discourses according to Boaventura de Sousa Santos's framework. At last, we try to put Michel Foucault's and Boaventura de Sousa Santos's theoretical concepts together. Some other concepts supported... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Doutor

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