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On settler belonging: Travis Franks, ‘”We Are Considered Undesirable Foreigners” in “This Our Texas”: Mexican American Settler Nativism in Caballero’, MELUS, 2018

16Jul18

Abstract: Narratives of settler belonging rely, in part, on the appropriation of indigeneity. Today in the United States, non-Natives regularly coopt perceived markers of Indianness, such as dream catchers or a mystical connection to nature. Some claim distant indigenous ancestry, most often through the mythic Cherokee-princess-grandmother trope.1 They also supplant indigenous identity through place-making: destroying or taking over significant indigenous sites and conflating a sense of “belonging to the land” with property ownership.


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