Winlow, H (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 |
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| 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: | 15 Aug 2021 09:33 |
| ISSN: | 0317-7173 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/1033 |
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