‘What’s yours is ours’: Allison M. Dussias, ‘The Reports of Our Death Are Greatly Exaggerated – Reflections on the Resilience of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York’, BYU Law Review, 2019 | settler colonial studies blog

‘What’s yours is ours’: Allison M. Dussias, ‘The Reports of Our Death Are Greatly Exaggerated – Reflections on the Resilience of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York’, BYU Law Review, 2019

26May19

Excerpt: This Article examines the historical and contemporary experiences of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York in its dealings with New York State and its non-Indian citizens. Three themes, apparent at different times and taking shape in different ways, emerge from this examination. These themes resemble musical refrains—oftrepeated messages, conveyed by the State and its citizens to the Nation, like discordant sounds from a broken record:

1. What’s yours is ours.

2. Surrender your sovereignty—resistance is futile.

3. By surviving as a people, you are spoiling our plans.

Boiling down the Nation’s legal and political encounters with New York State to this basic level serves to highlight the blatant self-interest, and the settler colonialism, that are at the heart of it all, regardless of how much the State—at times aided and abetted by the Supreme Court—tries to hide behind legal niceties.

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