From Perth, Australia to Santiago de Chile to Nuuk, Greenland, to Oahu, Hawaii’s one metropolis, societies have been wrestling with something often called the “indigenous land question” in recent years. Descendants of the peoples who inhabited these places before the arrival of European, Asian and African settlers are demanding and often receiving grants of land, financial compensation and special political rights, jurisdiction and priority access to finite resources like wild fish to compensate for a putative “genocide” they supposedly suffered at the hands of early Old World settlers over the past half a millennium.
The “Stolen Lands” of the New World: A Psychological and Historical Archaeology of a Powerful Idea
