'Strangers on their own land’: ideology, policy and rational landscapes in the United States, 1825-1934.

Winlow, H ORCID: 0009-0008-5496-395X (2013) ''Strangers on their own land’: ideology, policy and rational landscapes in the United States, 1825-1934.' Cartographica, 48 (1). pp. 47-66.

Abstract

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Native Americans were increasingly excluded from the American social body and from national space. This article explores that exclusion from three perspectives: through dominant national ideologies that represented tribal groups as “Other” and inferior to European Americans; through federal policies – including removal, reservation, and allotment – that increasingly confined “Indians” to specific parts of the national landscape; and through the cartographic delineation of the national territory, which produced a Cartesian gridded landscape alien to Native understandings of land. This latter focus includes a case study of Indian Territory, which was incorporated into the state of Oklahoma in 1907. These three strands are explored through a theoretical framework that combines ideas about governmentality and territory, discourses of otherness and exclusion, and the power of maps.

Item Type:	Article
Note:	Paper of the same title delivered as part of the Oxford Seminars on Cartography series at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment on 8 May 2014
Keywords:	allotment, cartography, dispossession, exclusion, governmentality, Indian reservations, Native Americans, Public Land Survey, removal, territory
Divisions:	School of Sciences
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2013 09:42
Last Modified:	22 Aug 2025 05:30
ISSN:	0317-7173
URN:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/1033

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