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INTRODUCTION: THIS LAND
Epigraph: Willie Johns, "A Seminole Perspective on Ponce de Leon and Florida
History," Forum Magazine (Florida Humanities Council), Fall 20I2, http://
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ponce-de-leon-and-florida-history-I486 72 (accessed September 24, 20I3).
r. The full refrain of Woody Guthrie's most popular song: "This land is your
land I This land is my land I From California to the New York island I From
the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters I This land was made for you
and me."
- Henry Crow Dog, testimony at the I97 4 Sioux Treaty hearing, in Dunbar-
Ortiz, Great Sioux Nation, 54. - Chang, Color of the Land, 7.
- Wolfe, "Settler Colonialism," 38 7.
- See Watson, Buying America from the Indians, and Robertson, Conquest
by Law. For a list and description of each papal bull, see The Doctrine
of Discovery, http://www.doctrineofdiscovery.org (accessed November 5,
20I3). - Williams, American Indian in Western Legal Thought, 59.
- Stewart, Names on the Land, I69-73, 233, 302.
- Sheehan, "Indian-White Relations in Early America," 26 7-96.
- Killsback, "Indigenous Perceptions of Time," I3L
IO. Turner, Frontier in American History, I27.
IL "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Geno
cide, Paris, 9 December I948," Audiovisual Library of International Law,
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/ha/cppcg/cppcg.html (accessed December 6,
2012). See also Kunz, "United Nations Convention on Genocide."
I2. O'Brien, Firsting and Lasting.
I3. April I7, I873 , quoted in Marszalek, Sherman, 379. - Wolfe, "Settler Colonialism," 393.
I5. I8 U.S.C.§nsr (200I).
I6. Echo-Hawk, In the Courts of the Conqueror, 77-78.
I7. "Tribes," US Department of the Interior website, http://www.doi.gov/
tribes/index.cfm (accessed September 24, 20I3); "Indian Reservation,"
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