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What is land history? My land story.
Land History, Indian Treaty, Treaty Cession Jessica Intermill Land History, Indian Treaty, Treaty Cession Jessica Intermill

What is land history? My land story.

Land history is a squishy layer cake. From a twenty-first-century keyboard, I slice through layers of time. The Jewell County, Kansas land that I visited as a child was—and is—my grandparents’ farm. It was and is the United States’ undervalued taking from indigenous stewards and overpaid taking for a land-speculator’s gamble and miles-away homestead rolled into a reservoir-making land swap. It was and is and always will be Kanza homeland. In my land history, all of those pasts are present today.

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